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Serious A581 crash in Chorley on 16 April 1997 at 16:39 involving a bicycle

A bicycle hit a pedestrian on the A581 in Chorley at 16:39 on Wednesday 16 April 1997. A 15-year-old female pedestrian and the 49-year-old male cyclist were seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Apr 1997
Wednesday, 16:39
Vehicles
1
Bicycle
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65505, longitude -2.64437, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chorley.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199704C012997
Council area
Chorley
Police force
Lancashire
Highway authority
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
581
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 2008.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    49 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

  • Casualty 2: Cyclist

    Serious

    Male, aged 49, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

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 199704C012997 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 1997.