B6242 crash in Ribble Valley on 22 February 1999 at 16:30 involving a Nissan Bluebird
Five vehicles, including two Nissan Bluebirds and a Peugeot 309, were involved in a crash on the B6242 in Ribble Valley at 16:30 on Monday 22 February 1999. The 25-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 1999
- Monday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 5
- Nissan Bluebird and 4 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77821, longitude -2.68922, 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
- 199904D010199
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6242
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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 22 July 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6242 in the Ribble Valley, 22 July 1998
At the same spotRef 199804D046298
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the B6242 in Preston, 13 September 2008
At the same spotRef 200804DF08176
Serious
Minibus crash on the B6241 in Preston, 13 December 2006
14 m awayRef 200604DF06295
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B6242 in Preston, 15 June 2022
22 m awayRef 2022041195006
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the B6242 in the Ribble Valley, 10 November 1998
22 m awayRef 199804D073198
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the B6242 in Preston, 12 February 1994
22 m awayRef 199404L012994
Vehicles involved (5)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,294 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 4: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 5: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Bluebird)
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 199904D010199 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 1999.