Serious unclassified road crash in Ribble Valley BB6 on 18 February 2004 at 19:05 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Ribble Valley at 19:05 on Wednesday 18 February 2004. The 76-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Feb 2004
- Wednesday, 19:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.8177, longitude -2.45564, in the BB6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200404E011504
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2011.
Slight
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 31 December 2005
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Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 4 April 2008
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Serious
Toyota Prius crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 3 November 2024
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Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 14 August 1982
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200404E011504 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 2004.