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Serious unclassified road crash in Wyre PR3 on 19 December 1983 at 17:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wyre at 17:15 on Monday 19 December 1983. A 75-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

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

Severity
Serious
Date
19 Dec 1983
Monday, 17:15
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.87745, longitude -2.76171, in the PR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Catterall.

Map of where the crash happened in Wyre

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983040BF1724
Council area
Wyre
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 July 2006.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    33 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1983040BF1724 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre road accident statistics for 1983.