C road crash in Lancaster LA4 on 20 May 2002 at 14:42 involving a Ford Granada
A Ford Granada crashed on a C road in Lancaster at 14:42 on Monday 20 May 2002. The 74-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 2002
- Monday, 14:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Granada
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.06394, longitude -2.84414, in the LA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Morecambe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westgate, Lancaster, LA3 3PL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204B030702
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Granada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,933 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Granada)
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 200204B030702 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.