A59 crash in Ribble Valley on 23 December 1989 at 17:42 involving a car
A car crashed on the A59 in Ribble Valley at 17:42 on Saturday 23 December 1989. The 22-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1989
- Saturday, 17:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.94874, longitude -2.19377, in the BD23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989040FF2350
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 59
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 1991.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A59 in the Ribble Valley, 14 June 1991
At the same spotRef 1991040FG1062
Serious
Honda Accord crash on the A59 in Pendle, 4 December 1999
63 m awayRef 199904F080799
Serious
Car crash on the A59 in the Ribble Valley, 1 April 1986
117 m awayRef 1986040FG0555
Fatal
Rover 200 Series crash on the A59 in Pendle, 27 June 1998
117 m awayRef 199804F042398
Slight
Car crash on the A59 in the Ribble Valley, 28 March 1988
139 m awayRef 1988040FG0535
Serious
Peugeot crash on the A59 in Pendle, 20 November 2025
143 m awayRef 2025041671594
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, 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 1989040FF2350 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.