A56 crash in Pendle on 14 December 1986 at 15:28 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A56 in Pendle at 15:28 on Sunday 14 December 1986. A 76-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 14 Dec 1986; Sunday, 15:28
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986040FF2024
Council area: Pendle
Police force: Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 56
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 40 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: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Moving off
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
East
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
75 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
South
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
23 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Female, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front seat passenger

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 1986040FF2024 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.