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Unclassified road crash in Blackburn with Darwen BB1 on 6 December 1995 at 11:20 involving a Renault lorry

A Renault lorry hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen at 11:20 on Wednesday 6 December 1995. An 87-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in snow on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
6 Dec 1995
Wednesday, 11:20
Vehicles
1
Renault
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.74696, longitude -2.47913, in the BB1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackburn.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199504E058795
Council area
Blackburn with Darwen
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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
Snowing, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 1980.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Renault

    Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes

    Manoeuvre
    Reversing
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    33 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 87, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    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 199504E058795 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackburn with Darwen road accident statistics for 1995.