Unclassified road crash in Blackburn with Darwen BB2 on 23 August 2007 at 10:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen at 10:15 on Thursday 23 August 2007. A 36-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Aug 2007
- Thursday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.73471, longitude -2.4643, in the BB2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackburn.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704EA07237
- Council area
- Blackburn with Darwen
- 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
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 January 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B6232 in Blackburn with Darwen, 2 January 1985
30 m awayRef 1985040EC0005
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B6232 in Blackburn with Darwen, 15 December 1994
41 m awayRef 199404E142994
Slight
Car crash on the B6232 in Blackburn with Darwen, 2 December 1987
45 m awayRef 1987040EA3030
Slight
Car crash on the B6232 in Blackburn with Darwen, 28 April 1988
57 m awayRef 1988040EA1084
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B6232 in Blackburn with Darwen, 12 December 1995
57 m awayRef 199504E060495
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A6177 in Blackburn with Darwen, 21 January 2001
57 m awayRef 200104E004301
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 36, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
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 200704EA07237 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackburn with Darwen road accident statistics for 2007.