A584 crash in Fylde on 8 December 2019 at 17:58 involving a Vauxhall Combo
A Vauxhall Combo and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A584 in Fylde at 17:58 on Sunday 8 December 2019. The 77-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2019
- Sunday, 17:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Combo and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.73613, longitude -2.95895, in the FY8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lytham St Anne's. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lytham West, Fylde, FY8 5HP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019040913919
- Council area
- Fylde
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 584
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the A584 in Fylde, 31 May 1990
9 m awayRef 1990040AJ1365
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A584 in Fylde, 18 November 1992
9 m awayRef 1992040AJ3147
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A584 in Wyre, 2 September 1994
9 m awayRef 199404N105894
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A584 in Fylde, 3 December 2009
9 m awayRef 200904AL09210
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A584 in Fylde, 5 April 1996
9 m awayRef 199604N007796
Slight
Car crash on the A584 in Fylde, 9 May 1982
17 m awayRef 1982040AL0474
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Combo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2019040913919 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fylde road accident statistics for 2019.