Unclassified road crash in Burnley on 29 December 1982 at 15:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Burnley at 15:00 on Wednesday 29 December 1982. A 66-year-old female pedestrian and the 55-year-old female rider were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1982
- Wednesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982040FA1090
- Council area
- Burnley
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 66, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 55, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 1982040FA1090 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.