A681 crash in Rossendale on 8 December 1986 at 18:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A681 in Rossendale at 18:15 on Monday 8 December 1986. A 71-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Slight
Date: 8 Dec 1986; Monday, 18:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986040EC3099
Council area: Rossendale
Police force: Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 681
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: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning right
Travelling from
East
Travelling to
North
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
55 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 71, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
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 1986040EC3099 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rossendale road accident statistics for 1986.