Serious M61 crash in Chorley on 14 September 1993 at 13:45 involving a Toyota Hiace van
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Sep 1993
- Tuesday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Hiace
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65227, longitude -2.60877, in the PR6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199304C135393
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 March 2001.
Slight
Nissan crash on the M61 in South Ribble, 7 March 2001
32 m awayRef 200104C019201
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the M61 in Chorley, 15 October 2011
49 m awayRef 201104TA11169
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M61 in Chorley, 6 July 2019
55 m awayRef 2019040897718
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the M61 in Chorley, 19 April 1982
78 m awayRef 1982040JA0520
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the M61 in Chorley, 15 June 2022
93 m awayRef 2022041189046
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the M61 in Chorley, 27 July 2025
94 m awayRef 2025041621296
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Hiace
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,812 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Hiace)
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 199304C135393 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 1993.