A56 crash in Pendle on 23 December 1986 at 11:30 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A56 in Pendle at 11:30 on Tuesday 23 December 1986. A 23-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 23 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 11:30
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986040FE2102
Council area: Pendle
Police force: Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 56
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: Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning right
Travelling from
East
Travelling to
North West
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
45 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 23, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
On footway or verge
Pedestrian movement
In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)

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 1986040FE2102 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.