Unclassified road crash in South Ribble PR5 on 4 December 1996 at 07:40 involving a Rover Montego
A Rover Montego and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble at 07:40 on Wednesday 4 December 1996. The 56-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 1996
- Wednesday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Montego and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70696, longitude -2.63516, in the PR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bamber Bridge.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199604M045096
- Council area
- South Ribble
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5256
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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 11 July 1992.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B5256 in Chorley, 11 July 1992
At the same spotRef 1992040DG1806
Slight
Car crash on the B5256 in Chorley, 7 February 1988
At the same spotRef 1988040DG0315
Serious
Car crash on the B5256 in Chorley, 17 December 1987
At the same spotRef 1987040DC3133
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the B5256 in South Ribble, 9 July 2004
At the same spotRef 200404C060704
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B5256 in South Ribble, 21 February 1997
10 m awayRef 199704M007997
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on the B5256 in Chorley, 2 February 2023
12 m awayRef 2023041272578
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Montego
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Escort)
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 199604M045096 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ribble road accident statistics for 1996.