Unclassified road crash in Ribble Valley BB12 on 1 December 2003 at 08:20 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ribble Valley at 08:20 on Monday 1 December 2003. The 53-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2003
- Monday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.81374, longitude -2.31982, in the BB12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gawthorpe, Burnley, BB12 9AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200304E087703
- 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
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6246
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2001.
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 23 November 2001
14 m awayRef 200104F091001
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 1 May 1999
20 m awayRef 199904E032599
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 19 September 1997
20 m awayRef 199704F054897
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 12 June 2023
25 m awayRef 2023041318626
Serious
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 23 July 2009
41 m awayRef 200904EN09063
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 30 May 2025
45 m awayRef 2025041597307
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200304E087703 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.