M61 crash in Chorley on 27 June 2005 at 15:18 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jun 2005
- Monday, 15:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68381, longitude -2.6262, in the PR6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200504CD05006
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 61
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 June 1997.
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the M61 in Chorley, 21 June 1997
At the same spotRef 199704C030697
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the M61 in Chorley, 3 December 2020
6 m awayRef 2020041003530
Slight
Lorry crash on the M61 in Chorley, 18 September 1984
10 m awayRef 1984040JQ1391
Slight
Mercedes AMG Class crash on the M61 in Chorley, 27 February 2025
60 m awayRef 2025041562302
Slight
Ford crash on the M61 in Chorley, 31 January 1995
71 m awayRef 199504C002595
Serious
Lorry crash on the M61 in Chorley, 30 January 1996
71 m awayRef 199604C002996
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200504CD05006 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 2005.