B6241 crash in Ribble Valley on 12 November 1998 at 17:30 involving a Lada Riva
A Lada Riva, a Vauxhall Nova and a car were involved in a crash on the B6241 in Ribble Valley at 17:30 on Thursday 12 November 1998. The 30-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Nova and the 36-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 1998
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Lada Riva and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7787, longitude -2.68086, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fulwood.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199804D073898
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6241
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 2009.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B6241 in Preston, 1 July 2009
14 m awayRef 200904DR09023
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B6242 in Preston, 13 September 2005
14 m awayRef 200504DF05115
Slight
Car crash on the B6242 in Preston, 23 June 1979
20 m awayRef 1979040DC0923
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6241 in Preston, 8 January 1994
22 m awayRef 199404L004694
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6241 in Preston, 25 November 1997
22 m awayRef 199704D102897
Slight
Car crash on the B6241 in Preston, 26 May 1990
22 m awayRef 1990040DB1337
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Lada Riva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 83 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Nova)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
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 199804D073898 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ribble Valley road accident statistics for 1998.