Unclassified road crash in Ribble Valley BB7 on 16 October 2002 at 16:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Nova were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ribble Valley at 16:45 on Wednesday 16 October 2002. The 25-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus 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
- 16 Oct 2002
- Wednesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.89237, longitude -2.35481, in the BB7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204E086502
- 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
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 May 2020.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B1 in the Ribble Valley, 29 May 2020
6 m awayRef 2020040954022
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 21 July 1998
10 m awayRef 199804E066598
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 5 December 1987
10 m awayRef 1987040FG1908
Slight
Citroen XM crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 24 September 1998
10 m awayRef 199804E092298
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 8 February 1990
14 m awayRef 1990040FC0265
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 3 June 1996
14 m awayRef 199604K017996
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 200204E086502 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 2002.