Unclassified road crash in Ribble Valley PR2 on 20 November 1998 at 22:41 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ribble Valley at 22:41 on Friday 20 November 1998. The 27-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 405 and a 27-year-old male passenger in the Peugeot 405 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 1998
- Friday, 22:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 405 and van
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78299, longitude -2.65422, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston, Preston.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199804D075298
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 6243
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 9 May 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the B6243 in Preston, 9 May 1979
At the same spotRef 1979040DC0673
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B6243 in Preston, 31 January 1983
At the same spotRef 1983040DC0155
Slight
Car crash on the B6243 in Preston, 31 August 1979
At the same spotRef 1979040DC1276
Serious
Car crash on the B6243 in Preston, 28 March 1982
At the same spotRef 1982040DC0374
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 29 January 1979
At the same spotRef 1979040DC0181
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the B6243 in Preston, 24 January 2025
4 m awayRef 2025041545955
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 199804D075298 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.