A5073 crash in Blackpool on 15 December 1986 at 16:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A5073 in Blackpool at 16:00 on Monday 15 December 1986. A 14-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Slight
Date: 15 Dec 1986; Monday, 16:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986040AB3182
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: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal
Second road class: B
Second road number: 5261

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 1986040AB3182 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.