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Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA3 on 21 January 1998 at 22:00 involving a Volvo 460

A Volvo 460 crashed on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 22:00 on Wednesday 21 January 1998. A 16-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
21 Jan 1998
Wednesday, 22:00
Vehicles
1
Volvo 460
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.0151, longitude -2.86068, in the LA3 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199804B004498
Council area
Lancaster
Police force
Lancashire
Highway authority
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
70 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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 February 2004.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volvo 460

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years
    Engine capacity
    1,721 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 460)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

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 199804B004498 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 1998.