M6 crash in Wyre on 27 August 1999 at 09:55 involving a Rover 400 Series
A Rover 400 Series and a car were involved in a crash on the M6 in Wyre at 09:55 on Friday 27 August 1999. The 58-year-old male driver of the Rover 400 Series and a 53-year-old female passenger in the Rover 400 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Aug 1999
- Friday, 09:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 400 Series and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.89023, longitude -2.74523, in the PR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199904B056299
- Council area
- Wyre
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 6
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 18 April 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the M6 in Wyre, 18 April 2004
At the same spotRef 200404B022504
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the M6 in Wyre, 14 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200404B079104
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the M6 in Wyre, 18 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200204B031802
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the M6 in Lancaster, 19 February 1999
At the same spotRef 199904B012599
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Ford Escort crash on the M6 in Wyre, 6 July 1990
At the same spotRef 1990040BE0954
Slight
Van crash on the M6 in Wyre, 7 December 2017
10 m awayRef 201704WB17407
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 400 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 400 Series)
- 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 199904B056299 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre road accident statistics for 1999.