Unclassified road crash in Pendle on 18 December 1986 at 16:30 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Pendle at 16:30 on Thursday 18 December 1986. An 18-year-old male passenger in the van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1986
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986040FB2116
- Council area
- Pendle
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
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 1986040FB2116 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pendle road accident statistics for 1986.