Serious A671 crash in Ribble Valley on 18 June 2004 at 05:44 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna crashed on the A671 in Ribble Valley at 05:44 on Friday 18 June 2004. The 19-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 2004
- Friday, 05:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.81219, longitude -2.38754, in the BB7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Whalley, Read & Simonstone, Ribble Valley, BB7 9FB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200404E040804
- 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
- 671
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 15 September 1988
At the same spotRef 1988040FC1516
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 7 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199704E105497
Fatal
Toyota Corolla crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 26 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200304E095403
Slight
Van crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 14 October 1989
At the same spotRef 1989040FC1808
Slight
Car crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 12 April 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040GK0266
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 30 August 1995
At the same spotRef 199504K031995
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
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 200404E040804 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.