Unclassified road crash in Burnley on 10 December 1982 at 23:45 involving a car

A car crashed on an unclassified road in Burnley at 23:45 on Friday 10 December 1982. A 23-year-old female passenger and the 19-year-old male driver were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 10 Dec 1982; Friday, 23:45
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 2; 2 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1982040FA1037
Council area: Burnley
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, street lights lit
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
North West
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
19 years

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Female, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 19, 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 1982040FA1037 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 1982.