Serious B6251 crash in Pendle on 16 December 1986 at 13:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the B6251 in Pendle at 13:00 on Tuesday 16 December 1986. A 64-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 19-year-old female driver was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 16 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 13:00
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 2; 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986040FF2095
Council area: Pendle
Police force: Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 6251
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

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
Carriageway hazards: Other object in carriageway

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
19 years

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 64, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
Casualty 2: Driver
Slight
Female, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 1986040FF2095 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.