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Fatal unclassified road crash in Burnley BB11 on 13 December 1996 at 18:10

A vehicle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Burnley at 18:10 on Friday 13 December 1996. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was killed.

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
Fatal
Date
13 Dec 1996
Friday, 18:10
Vehicles
1
Other vehicle
Casualties
1
1 killed

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78149, longitude -2.23397, in the BB11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley.

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199604F041996
Council area
Burnley
Police force
Lancashire
Highway authority
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
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 25 November 1995.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Other vehicle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    32 years
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    4 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Fatal

    Male, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 199604F041996 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.