Serious unclassified road crash in Ribble Valley BB7 on 27 December 2000 at 15:00 involving a Vauxhall Senator
A Vauxhall Senator hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Ribble Valley at 15:00 on Wednesday 27 December 2000. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Dec 2000
- Wednesday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Senator
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.81426, longitude -2.41293, in the BB7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200004E102200
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2001.
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 2 December 2001
40 m awayRef 200104E103901
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 31 May 1982
91 m awayRef 1982040EC0667
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 18 June 2007
102 m awayRef 200704EN07071
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 9 August 1998
122 m awayRef 199804E073898
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 10 December 1989
141 m awayRef 1989040EB3467
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 13 May 1999
221 m awayRef 199904E035799
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Senator
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Senator)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200004E102200 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 2000.