A5073 crash in Blackpool on 19 January 1981 at 19:40 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A5073 in Blackpool at 19:40 on Monday 19 January 1981. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jan 1981
- Monday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80348, longitude -3.02655, in the FY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981040CD0055
- Council area
- Blackpool
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5073
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 27 September 2003.
Serious
Citroen BX crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 27 September 2003
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Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A583 in Blackpool, 27 August 2014
At the same spotRef 201404AM14122
Slight
Van crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 30 September 1980
At the same spotRef 1980040CD1389
Serious
Nissan Juke crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 6 July 2023
2 m awayRef 2023041326757
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 1 September 2024
4 m awayRef 2024041492249
Slight
Car crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 30 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982040CD1838
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1981040CD0055 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackpool road accident statistics for 1981.