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A671 crash in Burnley on 23 December 1981 at 17:10 involving a car

Two cars and a van were involved in a crash on the A671 in Burnley at 17:10 on Wednesday 23 December 1981. A 20-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.

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

Severity
Slight
Date
23 Dec 1981
Wednesday, 17:10
Vehicles
3
Car and 2 others
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.73686, longitude -2.2125, in the OL13 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Burnley

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1981040FA1166
Council area
Burnley
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
671
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
Snowing, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 22 metres away, was a fatal crash on 17 May 1993.

Vehicles involved (3)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    Travelling from
    Parked
    Travelling to
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    40 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Hit object in carriageway
    Parked vehicle
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

  • Vehicle 3: Van

    Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    21 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 1981040FA1166 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Burnley road accident statistics for 1981.