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Serious unclassified road crash in Burnley BB11 on 29 July 1989 at 15:40 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Burnley at 15:40 on Saturday 29 July 1989. A 4-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
29 Jul 1989
Saturday, 15:40
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7831, longitude -2.23808, 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
1989040FA1277
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
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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    29 years
    Engine capacity
    1,117 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, 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 1989040FA1277 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 1989.