Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA1 on 15 November 2001 at 19:20 involving a BMW 3 Series
A car and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 19:20 on Thursday 15 November 2001. The 61-year-old male driver of the car and a 62-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 2001
- Thursday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.06141, longitude -2.82025, in the LA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lancaster. It is one of the crashes that make up the Scale Hall, Lancaster, LA1 2QR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200104B070901
- Council area
- Lancaster
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2000.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 11 July 2000
14 m awayRef 200004B045200
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B5321 in Lancaster, 17 February 2015
20 m awayRef 201504WB15048
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 20 April 1980
20 m awayRef 1980040BA0467
Slight
Car crash on the B5321 in Lancaster, 20 November 1981
22 m awayRef 1981040BA1580
Slight
Car crash on the B5321 in Lancaster, 16 December 1984
22 m awayRef 1984040BA1871
Serious
Van crash on the B5321 in Lancaster, 14 March 1983
22 m awayRef 1983040BA0282
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200104B070901 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2001.