B6251 crash in Ribble Valley on 1 August 1996 at 23:50 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the B6251 in Ribble Valley at 23:50 on Thursday 1 August 1996. The 75-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 1996
- Thursday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.93039, longitude -2.19993, in the BB18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199604K026696
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6251
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 2001.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B6251 in Pendle, 10 April 2001
10 m awayRef 200104F025801
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6251 in Pendle, 19 September 2001
73 m awayRef 200104F070701
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6251 in Pendle, 22 April 2000
73 m awayRef 200004F025000
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the B6251 in Pendle, 1 June 2018
91 m awayRef 201804EG18127
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6251 in Pendle, 21 November 2005
100 m awayRef 200504FE05094
Serious
Car crash on the B6251 in the Ribble Valley, 2 September 1985
102 m awayRef 1985040GL0704
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199604K026696 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 1996.