Unclassified road crash in Ribble Valley BB6 on 23 April 1983 at 17:15 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Ribble Valley at 17:15 on Saturday 23 April 1983. The 32-year-old male driver 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
- 23 Apr 1983
- Saturday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80154, longitude -2.45166, 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
- 1983040EC0452
- 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, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 25 October 1985
30 m awayRef 1985040EC1327
Serious
Van crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 17 November 1981
36 m awayRef 1981040EC1270
Serious
Car crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 8 September 1982
41 m awayRef 1982040EC0984
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 24 August 2014
61 m awayRef 201404EN14081
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 20 June 1981
63 m awayRef 1981040EC0723
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 17 April 2021
68 m awayRef 2021041036348
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, 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 1983040EC0452 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 1983.