Serious unclassified road crash in Blackpool FY2 on 23 January 1991 at 17:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool at 17:00 on Wednesday 23 January 1991. The 14-year-old male cyclist 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
- 23 Jan 1991
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.84583, longitude -3.03519, in the FY2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991040AE0224
- Council area
- Blackpool
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 1980.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 5 February 1980
22 m awayRef 1980040CH0138
Serious
Fiat Stilo crash on the B5258 in Blackpool, 24 January 2011
22 m awayRef 201104AN11011
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 11 July 2004
28 m awayRef 200404A038704
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 17 September 2025
41 m awayRef 2025041643082
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 6 October 2010
41 m awayRef 201004AN10112
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A587 in Blackpool, 21 February 2009
50 m awayRef 200904AN09020
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 14, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 1991040AE0224 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackpool road accident statistics for 1991.