Unclassified road crash in Blackpool FY4 on 1 July 2008 at 17:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Blackpool at 17:30 on Tuesday 1 July 2008. A 13-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 2008
- Tuesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80049, longitude -2.9969, in the FY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clifton, Blackpool, FY4 4TN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blackpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200804AM08090
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 24 February 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040CD0220
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Rover 800 Series crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 10 March 1997
14 m awayRef 199704A012697
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 24 August 1992
20 m awayRef 1992040AA2164
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 20 May 2024
22 m awayRef 2024041445303
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 14 January 2014
32 m awayRef 201404AM14003
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 23 October 2005
50 m awayRef 200504AM05096
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200804AM08090 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 2008.