Serious unclassified road crash in Hyndburn BB5 on 17 December 1990 at 17:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Hyndburn at 17:30 on Monday 17 December 1990. A 50-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Dec 1990
- Monday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75253, longitude -2.38092, in the BB5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Accrington.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1990040EB3709
- Council area
- Hyndburn
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 24 March 1988.
Serious
Van crash on the A679 in Hyndburn, 24 March 1988
At the same spotRef 1988040EB0759
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Hyndburn, 6 August 1995
At the same spotRef 199504J017795
Fatal
Car crash on the A679 in Hyndburn, 7 April 1986
At the same spotRef 1986040EB0886
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A679 in Hyndburn, 7 May 1987
At the same spotRef 1987040EB1126
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Hyndburn, 22 May 2025
9 m awayRef 2025041593640
Slight
Car crash on the A679 in Hyndburn, 13 June 1983
10 m awayRef 1983040HH0618
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1990040EB3709 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hyndburn road accident statistics for 1990.