Serious unclassified road crash in Wyre FY5 on 28 February 1993 at 21:00 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Wyre at 21:00 on Sunday 28 February 1993. The 22-year-old male driver 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
- 28 Feb 1993
- Sunday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.8705, longitude -2.99839, in the FY5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Thornton.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199304A018493
- Council area
- Wyre
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 January 2007.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B5412 in Wyre, 11 January 2007
10 m awayRef 200704BC07004
Slight
Taxi crash on the B5412 in Wyre, 18 February 1982
36 m awayRef 1982040AG0211
Serious
Peugeot 406 crash on the B5412 in Wyre, 26 November 2011
38 m awayRef 201104BC11248
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B5412 in Wyre, 4 July 2025
40 m awayRef 2025041611672
Slight
Car crash on the B5412 in Wyre, 24 April 1982
45 m awayRef 1982040AG0424
Slight
MG MGB crash on the B5412 in Wyre, 11 December 1991
45 m awayRef 1991040AF3362
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 199304A018493 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre road accident statistics for 1993.