A59 crash in Ribble Valley on 22 December 2004 at 10:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A59 in Ribble Valley at 10:30 on Wednesday 22 December 2004. The 69-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2004
- Wednesday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78568, longitude -2.52663, in the BB2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200404E099604
- 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
- 59
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2002.
Slight
Honda XL1000V crash on the A59 in the Ribble Valley, 19 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200204E085802
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A59 in the Ribble Valley, 18 November 1991
At the same spotRef 1991040EA3083
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the A59 in the Ribble Valley, 19 April 2014
18 m awayRef 201404EN14029
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A59 in the Ribble Valley, 22 May 2009
22 m awayRef 200904EN09044
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A59 in the Ribble Valley, 8 June 2008
22 m awayRef 200804EN08059
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the A59 in the Ribble Valley, 31 October 2025
26 m awayRef 2025041662057
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200404E099604 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.