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Serious A59 crash in Ribble Valley on 10 April 1999 at 04:20 involving a car

A car crashed on the A59 in Ribble Valley at 04:20 on Saturday 10 April 1999. There were five casualties: one person was seriously injured and four were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
10 Apr 1999
Saturday, 04:20
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
5
1 seriously injured, 4 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7653, longitude -2.64971, in the PR1 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199904D018599
Council area
Ribble Valley
Police force
Lancashire
Police attended the scene
Yes
Highway authority
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
59
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (5)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

  • Casualty 3: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 4: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

  • Casualty 5: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear 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 199904D018599 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.