Serious unclassified road crash in Burnley BB11 on 23 November 2016 at 20:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Burnley at 20:00 on Wednesday 23 November 2016. A 40-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Nov 2016
- Wednesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78337, longitude -2.23657, in the BB11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley.
Map of where the crash happened in Burnley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604EF16310
- Council area
- Burnley
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 13 December 1984.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 13 December 1984
At the same spotRef 1984040FA1077
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 31 October 1995
10 m awayRef 199504F033495
Slight
Renault 21 crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 24 October 1993
22 m awayRef 199304F155193
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 30 May 1987
30 m awayRef 1987040FA0771
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 5 January 1999
32 m awayRef 199904F000599
Slight
Fiat Mirafiori crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 12 August 1991
32 m awayRef 1991040FA1462
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 201604EF16310 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Burnley road accident statistics for 2016.