Unclassified road crash in Ribble Valley BB2 on 16 June 1981 at 20:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ribble Valley at 20:40 on Tuesday 16 June 1981. A 23-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jun 1981
- Tuesday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77553, longitude -2.50555, in the BB2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981040EC0690
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 114 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 2004.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 26 June 2004
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Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 27 January 2007
114 m awayRef 200704EN07012
Slight
Peugeot 3008 crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 31 May 2022
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 4 July 2005
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 1 September 1979
125 m awayRef 1979040EC1061
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 29 December 2023
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, 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 1981040EC0690 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 1981.