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Unclassified road crash in Burnley BB12 on 21 August 1997 at 15:40 involving a Volvo 740

A Volvo 740 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Burnley at 15:40 on Thursday 21 August 1997. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
21 Aug 1997
Thursday, 15:40
Vehicles
1
Volvo 740
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79696, longitude -2.30648, in the BB12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Padiham.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199704F046397
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
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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 September 2009.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volvo 740

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    61 years
    Engine capacity
    1,986 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    8 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo 740)

    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 199704F046397 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 1997.