A6 crash in Wyre on 27 December 1983 at 04:16 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A6 in Wyre at 04:16 on Tuesday 27 December 1983. A 43-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 and the 34-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1983
- Tuesday, 04:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.94989, longitude -2.77553, in the PR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983040BF1749
- Council area
- Wyre
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 May 2000.
Slight
Scania crash on the A6 in Wyre, 3 May 2000
40 m awayRef 200004B028500
Serious
DAF Trucks crash on the A6 in Wyre, 14 May 2006
76 m awayRef 200604BC06087
Fatal
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A6 in Wyre, 14 June 1999
80 m awayRef 199904B038999
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A6 in Wyre, 25 July 2016
100 m awayRef 201604WB16231
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A6 in Wyre, 23 April 2023
167 m awayRef 2023041305032
Serious
Van crash on the A6 in Wyre, 23 July 1981
170 m awayRef 1981040BF0979
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1983040BF1749 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.