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Unclassified road crash in Hyndburn BB1 on 14 August 1979 at 00:45 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in Hyndburn at 00:45 on Tuesday 14 August 1979. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
14 Aug 1979
Tuesday, 00:45
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78022, longitude -2.43094, in the BB1 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Hyndburn

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979040HJ0803
Council area
Hyndburn
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Entered ditch
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    22 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 1979040HJ0803 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hyndburn road accident statistics for 1979.