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Serious M61 crash in West Lancashire on 23 October 1998 at 18:23 involving a Peugeot 205

A Peugeot 205 crashed on the M61 in West Lancashire at 18:23 on Friday 23 October 1998. The 21-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

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

Severity
Serious
Date
23 Oct 1998
Friday, 18:23
Vehicles
1
Peugeot 205
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68292, longitude -2.62663, in the PR6 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in West Lancashire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199804C100998
Council area
West Lancashire
Police force
Lancashire
Highway authority
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
Motorway
First road number
61
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Trunk road (National Highways)

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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 2007.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Lane or location
    On lay-by or hard shoulder
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Nearside or offside crash barrier
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years
    Engine capacity
    1,905 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    8 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)

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 199804C100998 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lancashire road accident statistics for 1998.