Unclassified road crash in Wyre FY6 on 17 December 2011 at 00:15 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wyre at 00:15 on Saturday 17 December 2011. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2011
- Saturday, 00:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.92822, longitude -2.98579, in the FY6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preesall and Knott End-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Preesall, Wyre, FY6 0DU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104BC11268
- Council area
- Wyre
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 23 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2001.
Slight
Daewoo Espero crash on the B5270 in Wyre, 14 November 2001
23 m awayRef 200104B070401
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B5270 in Wyre, 23 March 1994
28 m awayRef 199404B012794
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B5270 in Wyre, 17 April 1990
28 m awayRef 1990040BF0510
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the B5270 in Wyre, 9 January 2000
28 m awayRef 200004B001100
Serious
Lorry crash on the B5270 in Wyre, 28 October 1989
28 m awayRef 1989040BF1670
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B5270 in Wyre, 26 July 1992
37 m awayRef 1992040BF1067
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 201104BC11268 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre road accident statistics for 2011.