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Serious unclassified road crash in Burnley BB11 on 28 December 1996 at 10:50 involving a Renault 5

A Renault 5 crashed on an unclassified road in Burnley at 10:50 on Saturday 28 December 1996. The 61-year-old female driver was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
28 Dec 1996
Saturday, 10:50
Vehicles
1
Renault 5
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77855, longitude -2.22227, in the BB11 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199604F043696
Council area
Burnley
Police force
Lancashire
Highway authority
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
20 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 September 2003.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Renault 5

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    61 years
    Engine capacity
    1,237 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 5)

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 199604F043696 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.