B5242 crash in West Lancashire on 30 June 1992 at 15:15 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B5242 in West Lancashire at 15:15 on Tuesday 30 June 1992. The 18-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jun 1992
- Tuesday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.60188, longitude -2.90167, in the L40 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1992040CJ0972
- Council area
- West Lancashire
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5242
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 slight injury crash on 3 December 1994.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B5242 in West Lancashire, 3 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199404H125494
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B5242 in West Lancashire, 25 June 1998
At the same spotRef 199804C059398
Slight
Fiat 127 crash on the B5242 in West Lancashire, 23 September 1991
At the same spotRef 1991040CJ1572
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B5242 in West Lancashire, 8 September 2016
At the same spotRef 201604SB16194
Serious
Toyota Celica crash on the B5242 in West Lancashire, 30 November 2000
At the same spotRef 200004C104600
Slight
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the B5242 in West Lancashire, 5 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199904C102199
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,608 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 1992040CJ0972 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lancashire road accident statistics for 1992.