B6243 crash in Ribble Valley on 27 July 1989 at 17:00 involving a car
Two cars and a lorry were involved in a crash on the B6243 in Ribble Valley at 17:00 on Thursday 27 July 1989. The 37-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 51-year-old male driver of vehicle 3 were 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
- 27 Jul 1989
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.81388, longitude -2.60762, in the PR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Longridge.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989040DF1910
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6243
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 October 2001.
Serious
Nissan Primera crash on the B6243 in Hyndburn, 22 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200104E087601
Slight
Car crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 2 May 1986
At the same spotRef 1986040DF1537
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 16 August 2025
8 m awayRef 2025041690316
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 24 May 2016
22 m awayRef 201604EG16186
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 30 October 2016
22 m awayRef 201604EG16244
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B6243 in Blackburn with Darwen, 28 July 1999
22 m awayRef 199904E060099
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (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 1989040DF1910 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 1989.