Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 11 January 1979 at 09:40 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Chorley at 09:40 on Thursday 11 January 1979. A 47-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jan 1979
- Thursday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65691, longitude -2.6326, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chorley.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979040JA0053
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 September 1982.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A6 in Chorley, 21 September 1982
At the same spotRef 1982040JA1278
Fatal
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 20 December 1985
10 m awayRef 1985040JA1982
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A6 in Chorley, 12 October 1994
14 m awayRef 199404C111494
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A6 in Chorley, 10 September 1992
14 m awayRef 1992040CA1359
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A6 in Chorley, 18 March 1993
14 m awayRef 1993040CA0154
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 13 March 1988
14 m awayRef 1988040CA0408
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1979040JA0053 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 1979.