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Unclassified road crash in Burnley BB11 on 1 November 2017 at 17:00 involving a Skoda Octavia taxi

A Skoda Octavia taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Burnley at 17:00 on Wednesday 1 November 2017. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
1 Nov 2017
Wednesday, 17:00
Vehicles
1
Skoda Octavia
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78703, longitude -2.25556, in the BB11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Trinity, Burnley, BB11 5AF area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Burnley

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
201704EF17239
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
Crossroads
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
17%
Estimated chance it was slight
83%

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia

    Taxi or private hire car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Position at junction
    Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    36 years
    Engine capacity
    1,598 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    6 years
    Driver home area deprivation
    20 to 30% least deprived

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 201704EF17239 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 2017.