Serious A671 crash in Ribble Valley on 6 February 1981 at 03:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the A671 in Ribble Valley at 03:25 on Friday 6 February 1981. The 36-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Feb 1981
- Friday, 03:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80415, longitude -2.37273, in the BB12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981040FB0091
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 671
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 April 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 21 April 1981
10 m awayRef 1981040FB0320
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 29 October 2012
21 m awayRef 201204EN12122
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A671 in Burnley, 13 April 1981
40 m awayRef 1981040FB0316
Fatal
Ford Mondeo crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 24 March 2000
98 m awayRef 200004E023500
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 20 December 1992
104 m awayRef 1992040FC2359
Serious
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 4 December 2001
104 m awayRef 200104E102701
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1981040FB0091 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.