Unclassified road crash in Pendle BB9 on 24 December 2003 at 09:30 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Pendle at 09:30 on Wednesday 24 December 2003. A 58-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2003
- Wednesday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.856, longitude -2.23181, in the BB9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200304F089703
- Council area
- Pendle
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 124 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 1995.
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Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 24 October 1995
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Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 10 August 1992
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Slight
Toyota Tercel crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 28 December 1995
250 m awayRef 199504K048895
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 4 February 2007
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Serious
Harley-Davidson XL crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 21 May 2023
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 4 February 1986
314 m awayRef 1986040FB0173
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 58, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200304F089703 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pendle road accident statistics for 2003.