A5099 crash in Blackpool on 28 October 2004 at 10:40 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a car were involved in a crash on the A5099 in Blackpool at 10:40 on Thursday 28 October 2004. The 80-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Oct 2004
- Thursday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.81164, longitude -3.04941, 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
- 200404A062704
- Council area
- Blackpool
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5099
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5099 in Blackpool, 1 June 1982
10 m awayRef 1982040CG0659
Slight
Car crash on the A5099 in Blackpool, 26 August 2020
11 m awayRef 2020040976281
Slight
Taxi crash on the A5099 in Blackpool, 20 December 2025
12 m awayRef 2025041712446
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A5099 in Blackpool, 6 April 2001
14 m awayRef 200104A022101
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A5099 in Blackpool, 5 August 2001
14 m awayRef 200104A052501
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 24 November 2017
14 m awayRef 201704WA17467
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 80, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200404A062704 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 2004.