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Fatal unclassified road crash in Rossendale BB4 on 24 March 1979 at 11:50 involving a motor scooter

A motor scooter hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rossendale at 11:50 on Saturday 24 March 1979. An 80-year-old male pedestrian was killed and the 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Fatal
Date
24 Mar 1979
Saturday, 11:50
Vehicles
1
Motor scooter
Casualties
2
1 killed, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70409, longitude -2.28293, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rawtenstall.

Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979040HE0312
Council area
Rossendale
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled

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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 March 2001.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Male, aged 80, hit by vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

  • Casualty 2: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 17, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)

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 1979040HE0312 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rossendale road accident statistics for 1979.