A56 crash in Pendle on 24 December 1986 at 11:20 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A56 in Pendle at 11:20 on Wednesday 24 December 1986. A 6-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

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

Severity: Slight
Date: 24 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 11:20
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986040FE2103
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: Raining, no 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
55 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 6, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 1986040FE2103 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.