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A586 crash in Blackpool on 7 December 2001 at 02:00 involving a taxi

A taxi hit a pedestrian on the A586 in Blackpool at 02:00 on Friday 7 December 2001. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
7 Dec 2001
Friday, 02:00
Vehicles
1
Taxi
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.81896, longitude -3.05491, in the FY1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Talbot, Blackpool, FY1 4LE area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Blackpool

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
200104A092901
Council area
Blackpool
Police force
Lancashire
Police attended the scene
No

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
586
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
583

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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 January 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Taxi

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)

    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 200104A092901 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackpool road accident statistics for 2001.