B6243 crash in Ribble Valley on 13 June 1999 at 18:15 involving a Proton Proton
A Proton Proton crashed on the B6243 in Ribble Valley at 18:15 on Sunday 13 June 1999. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jun 1999
- Sunday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Proton Proton
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.83585, longitude -2.48137, in the BB7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199904E043399
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6243
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 1990.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 4 October 1990
36 m awayRef 1990040DF2735
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 20 December 1997
36 m awayRef 199704E110297
Serious
Bristol (BLMC) crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 18 June 1991
36 m awayRef 1991040DF1586
Serious
Car crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 30 April 1989
67 m awayRef 1989040DF1042
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 8 February 1979
85 m awayRef 1979040DD0198
Slight
Optare Solo crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 19 November 2007
89 m awayRef 200704EN07138
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Proton Proton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Proton Proton)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Proton Proton)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Proton Proton)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Proton Proton)
- 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 199904E043399 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.