Unclassified road crash in Pendle BB9 on 10 June 1979 at 21:15 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Pendle at 21:15 on Sunday 10 June 1979. The 11-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jun 1979
- Sunday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.86049, longitude -2.23563, in the BB9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Pendle
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979040GC0504
- Council area
- Pendle
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 1990.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 13 April 1990
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Serious
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Serious
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 4 February 2007
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 28 August 1983
320 m awayRef 1983040GC0707
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 14 August 1980
396 m awayRef 1980040GC0686
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 11, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 1979040GC0504 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pendle road accident statistics for 1979.