A589 crash in Lancaster on 24 December 1986 at 07:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A589 in Lancaster at 07:15 on Wednesday 24 December 1986. A 73-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

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

Severity: Slight
Date: 24 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 07:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986040BB1783
Council area: Lancaster
Police force: Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 589
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: B
Second road number: 5274

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning left
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
North
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
60 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 73, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
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 1986040BB1783 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 1986.