Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 18 December 2004 at 14:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chorley at 14:20 on Saturday 18 December 2004. The 44-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2004
- Saturday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65008, longitude -2.63145, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chorley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chorley North West, Chorley, PR7 2TX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200404C123504
- Council area
- Chorley
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 28 December 1983
At the same spotRef 1983040JA1888
Serious
Dennis crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 20 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200404C087704
Serious
Bus crash on the A6 in Chorley, 20 February 1988
At the same spotRef 1988040CA0293
Slight
Car crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 19 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199704C078097
Slight
Bus crash on the A6 in Chorley, 18 January 1990
At the same spotRef 1990040CA0095
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 16 December 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040JA1985
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200404C123504 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 2004.