B5248 crash in South Ribble on 6 September 2001 at 15:30 involving a Mazda MX-3
A car and a Mazda MX-3 were involved in a crash on the B5248 in South Ribble at 15:30 on Thursday 6 September 2001. The 35-year-old female driver of the Mazda MX-3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 2001
- Thursday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mazda MX-3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68193, longitude -2.79272, in the PR26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200104C079001
- Council area
- South Ribble
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5248
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 May 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the B5248 in Chorley, 4 May 1987
32 m awayRef 1987040CF0596
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B5248 in Chorley, 21 May 2011
47 m awayRef 201104CC11050
Serious
Kawasaki ZX1000 crash on the B5248 in Chorley, 7 February 2019
61 m awayRef 2019040829980
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B5248 in South Ribble, 7 March 2002
81 m awayRef 200204C023802
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B5248 in Chorley, 22 December 1998
95 m awayRef 199804C126098
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5248 in Chorley, 8 January 2023
101 m awayRef 2023041260841
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Mazda MX-3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda MX-3)
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 200104C079001 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ribble road accident statistics for 2001.