Unclassified road crash in Ribble Valley BB6 on 19 October 1979 at 16:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ribble Valley at 16:40 on Friday 19 October 1979. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 19 Oct 1979
- Friday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80254, longitude -2.44712, in the BB6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Langho.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979040EC1284
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 115 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2012.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 16 October 2012
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 2 September 2011
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Land Rover Freelander crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 9 October 2008
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Volkswagen Polo crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 8 November 2006
178 m awayRef 200604EN06120
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 18 June 2008
178 m awayRef 200804EN08064
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1979040EC1284 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ribble Valley road accident statistics for 1979.