Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA4 on 24 December 1983 at 23:35 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 23:35 on Saturday 24 December 1983. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1983
- Saturday, 23:35
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.07341, longitude -2.86372, in the LA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Morecambe.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983040BB1742
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 4 October 1983
10 m awayRef 1983040BB1338
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 12 November 1996
32 m awayRef 199604B055896
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 30 November 2003
40 m awayRef 200304B075703
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 7 March 1992
45 m awayRef 1992040BB0321
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 4 November 2010
45 m awayRef 201004BB10188
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 26 June 2024
47 m awayRef 2024041461366
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, 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 1983040BB1742 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 1983.