C road crash in Lancaster LA2 on 16 March 2002 at 15:50 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on a C road in Lancaster at 15:50 on Saturday 16 March 2002. A 16-year-old female passenger, a 16-year-old female passenger and a 19-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 2002
- Saturday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.0104, longitude -2.75943, in the LA2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204B017602
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 126 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 September 2003.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 28 September 2003
126 m awayRef 200304B059803
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 28 August 2003
134 m awayRef 200304B052003
Serious
Seat Arosa crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 6 November 2002
139 m awayRef 200204B071002
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 15 December 2001
149 m awayRef 200104B078701
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 19 August 2003
433 m awayRef 200304B049303
Serious
Hyundai i10 crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 14 January 2024
471 m awayRef 2024041398102
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 200204B017602 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 2002.