A581 crash in Chorley on 17 December 1998 at 16:45 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A581 in Chorley at 16:45 on Thursday 17 December 1998. The 16-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 1998
- Thursday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 405 and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66238, longitude -2.71485, in the PR7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199804C123798
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 2013.
Slight
Citroen C1 crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 26 June 2013
11 m awayRef 201304CA13142
Slight
Volvo C70 crash on the A581 in Chorley, 16 October 2010
28 m awayRef 201004CA10116
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A581 in Chorley, 23 November 2010
28 m awayRef 201004CA10135
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A581 in Chorley, 11 June 2009
28 m awayRef 200904CA09052
Slight
Honda CBF 125 crash on the A581 in Chorley, 15 November 2025
34 m awayRef 2025041669148
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A581 in Chorley, 12 February 2008
36 m awayRef 200804CA08017
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 199804C123798 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 1998.