Serious unclassified road crash in Burnley BB11 on 16 September 2000 at 11:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Burnley at 11:45 on Saturday 16 September 2000. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Sep 2000
- Saturday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78762, longitude -2.26544, in the BB11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley.
Map of where the crash happened in Burnley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200004F052600
- Council area
- Burnley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- 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
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 1979.
Slight
Van crash on the A679 in Burnley, 25 July 1979
22 m awayRef 1979040FA0573
Slight
Bus crash on the A679 in Burnley, 18 April 1983
40 m awayRef 1983040FA0391
Slight
Minibus crash on the A679 in Burnley, 3 April 2007
40 m awayRef 200704FA07056
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A679 in Burnley, 18 July 2024
41 m awayRef 2024041469507
Slight
Car crash on the A679 in Burnley, 12 February 1988
41 m awayRef 1988040FA0241
Slight
Car crash on the A679 in Burnley, 4 September 1989
41 m awayRef 1989040FA1528
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, 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 200004F052600 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 2000.