A5073 crash in Blackpool on 12 August 1983 at 16:35 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter and two cars were involved in a crash on the A5073 in Blackpool at 16:35 on Friday 12 August 1983. The 19-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 1983
- Friday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 3
- Motor scooter and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80191, longitude -3.03092, in the FY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983040CD0979
- Council area
- Blackpool
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5073
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 8 October 1984
10 m awayRef 1984040CD1453
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 2 April 1991
10 m awayRef 1991040AB0858
Slight
Car crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 21 June 1985
10 m awayRef 1985040CD0755
Slight
Bus crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 6 December 1988
10 m awayRef 1988040AB3320
Slight
Car crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 1 August 1989
10 m awayRef 1989040AB1882
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 11 June 1983
10 m awayRef 1983040CD0671
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Towing and articulation
- Other tow
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Towing and articulation
- Other tow
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
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 1983040CD0979 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackpool road accident statistics for 1983.