Unclassified road crash in Fylde PR4 on 27 December 2023 at 11:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Fylde at 11:30 on Wednesday 27 December 2023. A 29-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2023
- Wednesday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75746, longitude -2.86726, in the PR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Freckleton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Freckleton Village, Fylde, PR4 1HP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023041395545
- Council area
- Fylde
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 September 2024.
Serious
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in Fylde, 18 September 2024
5 m awayRef 2024041492830
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Fylde, 29 January 1990
22 m awayRef 1990040AK0237
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on an unclassified road in Fylde, 12 February 1992
96 m awayRef 1992040AK0350
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Fylde, 29 March 1994
131 m awayRef 199404N028794
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in Fylde, 19 December 2025
143 m awayRef 2025041685458
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A584 in Fylde, 24 June 2019
156 m awayRef 2019040851875
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
- 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 2023041395545 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 2023.