Serious C road crash in Burnley BB10 on 9 November 1996 at 11:15 involving a Renault 5
A Renault 5 hit a pedestrian on a C road in Burnley at 11:15 on Saturday 9 November 1996. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Nov 1996
- Saturday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault 5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80415, longitude -2.23031, in the BB10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199604F036796
- Council area
- Burnley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault 5)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 199604F036796 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Burnley road accident statistics for 1996.