Serious A5083 crash in South Ribble on 13 March 2004 at 15:40 involving a Mercedes bus
A Mercedes bus hit a pedestrian on the A5083 in South Ribble at 15:40 on Saturday 13 March 2004. A 19-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Mar 2004
- Saturday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71308, longitude -2.68315, in the PR25 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Farington East, South Ribble, PR25 4QZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200404C019104
- Council area
- South Ribble
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5083
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 July 2020.
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A5083 in South Ribble, 28 July 2020
6 m awayRef 2020040967967
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A5083 in South Ribble, 20 March 2003
10 m awayRef 200304C023803
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A5083 in South Ribble, 29 January 2008
10 m awayRef 200804CL08009
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on the A5083 in South Ribble, 12 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200104C113601
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A5083 in South Ribble, 2 March 1996
10 m awayRef 199604M007796
Fatal
Citroen ZX crash on the A5083 in South Ribble, 14 February 2004
10 m awayRef 200404C010304
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,972 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 200404C019104 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ribble road accident statistics for 2004.