A666 crash in Ribble Valley on 28 May 1985 at 13:15 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A666 in Ribble Valley at 13:15 on Tuesday 28 May 1985. The 50-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 1985
- Tuesday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80262, longitude -2.45061, 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
- 1985040EC0629
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 666
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 January 1988.
Serious
Car crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 12 January 1988
14 m awayRef 1988040EA0081
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 9 March 1997
28 m awayRef 199704E014497
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 10 July 1982
41 m awayRef 1982040EC0760
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 4 August 2009
41 m awayRef 200904EN09066
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 11 April 1986
42 m awayRef 1986040EA0944
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 7 January 1982
64 m awayRef 1982040EC0047
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1985040EC0629 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 1985.