Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR6 on 2 January 1986 at 02:30 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Chorley at 02:30 on Thursday 2 January 1986. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jan 1986
- Thursday, 02:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6323, longitude -2.59351, in the PR6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986040CA0053
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 92 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 1995.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M61 in Chorley, 16 December 1995
92 m awayRef 199504C030095
Serious
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the M61 in Chorley, 11 March 2014
120 m awayRef 201404TA14044
Slight
Car crash on the M61 in Chorley, 27 January 1985
122 m awayRef 1985040JJ0136
Serious
Car crash on the M61 in Chorley, 14 July 1981
139 m awayRef 1981040JJ0996
Serious
Honda crash on the M61 in Chorley, 14 October 1990
150 m awayRef 1990040CE1771
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the M61 in Chorley, 4 March 2009
150 m awayRef 200904TA09043
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, 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 1986040CA0053 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 1986.