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Serious A583 crash in Blackpool on 19 January 1982 at 17:00 involving a car

A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A583 in Blackpool at 17:00 on Tuesday 19 January 1982. The 32-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
19 Jan 1982
Tuesday, 17:00
Vehicles
2
Car and bicycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80695, longitude -3.03028, in the FY3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982040CD0063
Council area
Blackpool
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
583
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2002.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

  • Vehicle 2: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

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

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Serious

    Female, aged 32, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)

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 1982040CD0063 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 1982.