Unclassified road crash in Blackpool FY4 on 27 December 1983 at 16:30 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool at 16:30 on Tuesday 27 December 1983. The 20-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1983
- Tuesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.795, longitude -3.02999, 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
- 1983040CD1737
- Council area
- Blackpool
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 2021.
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Slight
Car crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 20 October 1983
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Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 20 November 1995
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, 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 1983040CD1737 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.