Unclassified road crash in Blackpool FY4 on 18 February 2013 at 12:15 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Blackpool at 12:15 on Monday 18 February 2013. A 9-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 18 Feb 2013
- Monday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79977, longitude -3.03924, in the FY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bloomfield, Blackpool, FY1 6JH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201304AM13012
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 5261
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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 2009.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 7 February 2009
10 m awayRef 200904AM09014
Serious
Rover Maestro crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 5 July 1994
10 m awayRef 199404A111394
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 2 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199704A088997
Slight
Car crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 18 December 1984
10 m awayRef 1984040CD1814
Slight
Car crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 13 August 2011
20 m awayRef 201104AM11110
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 13 May 2009
30 m awayRef 200904AM09075
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- 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 201304AM13012 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 2013.