Serious unclassified road crash in Wyre LA1 on 27 September 1997 at 16:25 involving a Rover Montego
A Rover Montego hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wyre at 16:25 on Saturday 27 September 1997. A 9-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Sep 1997
- Saturday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Montego
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.05893, longitude -2.80017, in the LA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lancaster.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199704B064897
- Council area
- Wyre
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover Montego)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 199704B064897 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 1997.