Serious A584 crash in Blackpool on 30 December 1986 at 16:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A584 in Blackpool at 16:30 on Tuesday 30 December 1986. A 68-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

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

Severity: Serious
Date: 30 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 16:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986040AA3315
Council area: Blackpool
Police force: Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 584
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: Raining with high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Female, aged 68, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1986040AA3315 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 1986.