Fatal A682 crash in Ribble Valley on 16 July 2003 at 11:30 involving a Peugeot 205
A Peugeot 205 crashed on the A682 in Ribble Valley at 11:30 on Wednesday 16 July 2003. The 74-year-old female driver was killed and an 82-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 16 Jul 2003
- Wednesday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 205
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 killed, 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.95455, longitude -2.25674, in the BB7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200304E052103
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 682
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 18 January 2000.
Fatal
Volkswagen 800 crash on the A682 in the Ribble Valley, 18 January 2000
14 m awayRef 200004E003800
Fatal
Suzuki GS 500 crash on the A682 in the Ribble Valley, 23 July 1999
14 m awayRef 199904E057599
Serious
Suzuki GSX 1400 crash on the A682 in the Ribble Valley, 20 March 2022
30 m awayRef 2022041160372
Serious
Triumph Thunderbird crash on the A682 in the Ribble Valley, 5 May 2017
36 m awayRef 201704EG17083
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A682 in the Ribble Valley, 23 September 2011
39 m awayRef 201104EN11103
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A682 in the Ribble Valley, 1 September 2011
44 m awayRef 201104EN11092
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 205
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalFemale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 205)
- 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 200304E052103 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.