Serious B6447 crash in Blackburn with Darwen on 21 February 2009 at 07:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B6447 in Blackburn with Darwen at 07:30 on Saturday 21 February 2009. A 19-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
- 21 Feb 2009
- Saturday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.74477, longitude -2.50929, in the BB2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackburn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wensley Fold, Blackburn with Darwen, BB2 6LT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200904EA09053
- Council area
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6447
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 2018.
Slight
Peugeot 108 crash on the B6447 in Blackburn with Darwen, 17 June 2018
10 m awayRef 201804ED18215
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 18 August 2012
14 m awayRef 201204EA12246
Slight
Peugeot 5008 crash on the B6447 in Blackburn with Darwen, 21 November 2021
19 m awayRef 2021041144746
Slight
Car crash on the B6447 in the Ribble Valley, 27 April 1984
22 m awayRef 1984040EC0537
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6447 in Blackburn with Darwen, 19 March 1991
22 m awayRef 1991040EA0745
Slight
Leyland crash on the B6447 in Blackburn with Darwen, 15 August 1994
22 m awayRef 199404E115394
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200904EA09053 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 2009.