Unclassified road crash in Wyre PR3 on 23 March 1981 at 09:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wyre at 09:00 on Monday 23 March 1981. A 30-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 23 Mar 1981
- Monday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.92643, longitude -2.91703, in the PR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981040BF0356
- Council area
- Wyre
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 220 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 April 2000.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 29 April 2000
220 m awayRef 200004B028100
Serious
Scania crash on a C road in Wyre, 8 April 2009
230 m awayRef 200904BC09102
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 26 May 2002
230 m awayRef 200204B033802
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 26 January 2005
378 m awayRef 200504B004405
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 19 December 1992
420 m awayRef 1992040BF1882
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 22 January 1989
436 m awayRef 1989040BF0099
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Road works
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 1981040BF0356 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre road accident statistics for 1981.