Unclassified road crash in Blackburn with Darwen BB3 on 20 January 2017 at 13:45 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen at 13:45 on Friday 20 January 2017. A 40-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2017
- Friday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69516, longitude -2.46915, in the BB3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darwen. It is one of the crashes that make up the Darwen East, Blackburn with Darwen, BB3 0DJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201704ED17034
- Council area
- Blackburn with Darwen
- 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
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 2017.
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 25 January 2017
20 m awayRef 201704ED17037
Serious
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22 m awayRef 201104EA11244
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 20 June 2007
22 m awayRef 200704EB07054
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 20 January 1991
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Skoda Kamiq crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 17 October 2025
42 m awayRef 2025041659613
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 17 June 2019
43 m awayRef 2019040853781
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201704ED17034 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 2017.