Serious unclassified road crash in Burnley BB11 on 8 August 1989 at 18:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Burnley at 18:00 on Tuesday 8 August 1989. A 35-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
- 8 Aug 1989
- Tuesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79081, longitude -2.24814, in the BB11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley.
Map of where the crash happened in Burnley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989040FA1349
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 2006.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A679 in Burnley, 24 July 2006
10 m awayRef 200604FA06132
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A679 in Burnley, 26 October 1999
10 m awayRef 199904F070699
Slight
Vauxhall Astramax crash on the A679 in Burnley, 16 November 1999
14 m awayRef 199904F076099
Slight
Car crash on the A679 in Burnley, 19 August 1991
14 m awayRef 1991040FA1541
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 24 January 2014
17 m awayRef 201404FA14009
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the A679 in Burnley, 26 June 2019
18 m awayRef 2019040851787
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
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 35, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 1989040FA1349 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.