A584 crash in Blackpool on 20 December 1986 at 21:40 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A584 in Blackpool at 21:40 on Saturday 20 December 1986. A 17-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 20 Dec 1986; Saturday, 21:40
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986040AE3246
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: Auto traffic signal
Second road class: Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: Pedestrian phase at traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Fine 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
Nearside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
36 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1986040AE3246 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.