B6478 crash in Ribble Valley on 3 May 2003 at 00:20 involving a Peugeot
A Peugeot crashed on the B6478 in Ribble Valley at 00:20 on Saturday 3 May 2003. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 2003
- Saturday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.91559, longitude -2.42809, 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
- 200304E035603
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6478
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the B6478 in the Ribble Valley, 17 September 1981
20 m awayRef 1981040GM0793
Serious
Car crash on the B6478 in the Ribble Valley, 16 February 1986
20 m awayRef 1986040FC0445
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B6478 in the Ribble Valley, 25 August 1979
40 m awayRef 1979040GK0709
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B6478 in the Ribble Valley, 7 June 2013
44 m awayRef 201304EN13065
Serious
Fiat Panda crash on the B6478 in the Ribble Valley, 23 September 1993
80 m awayRef 199304F141093
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6478 in the Ribble Valley, 28 September 1995
80 m awayRef 199504K034695
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot)
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 200304E035603 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 2003.