Serious unclassified road crash in Burnley BB11 on 23 March 1988 at 09:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Burnley at 09:10 on Wednesday 23 March 1988. A 67-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Mar 1988
- Wednesday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78409, longitude -2.23824, in the BB11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1988040FA0489
- Council area
- Burnley
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 1996.
Slight
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 30 June 1988
At the same spotRef 1988040FA1033
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 30 July 1986
At the same spotRef 1986040FA1192
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 19 April 2001
At the same spotRef 200104F028001
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 25 July 1988
At the same spotRef 1988040FA1178
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 67, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1988040FA0489 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Burnley road accident statistics for 1988.