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Serious unclassified road crash in Pendle BB9 on 26 January 1991 at 11:30 involving a Hillman Hunter

A Hillman Hunter hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Pendle at 11:30 on Saturday 26 January 1991. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
26 Jan 1991
Saturday, 11:30
Vehicles
1
Hillman Hunter
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.8335, longitude -2.20357, in the BB9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nelson.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1991040FE0161
Council area
Pendle
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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 March 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Hillman Hunter

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years
    Engine capacity
    1,500 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Hillman Hunter)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, 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 1991040FE0161 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pendle road accident statistics for 1991.