Serious unclassified road crash in Blackpool FY4 on 26 November 2002 at 15:30 involving a Suzuki Supercarry
A Suzuki Supercarry hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Blackpool at 15:30 on Tuesday 26 November 2002. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Nov 2002
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Supercarry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80257, longitude -3.02807, in the FY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tyldesley, Blackpool, FY1 6RA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204A084302
- Council area
- Blackpool
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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: Suzuki Supercarry
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki Supercarry)
- 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 200204A084302 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 2002.