Unclassified road crash in South Ribble PR1 on 18 December 2006 at 14:30 involving a Ford KA taxi
A Ford KA taxi and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble at 14:30 on Monday 18 December 2006. The 87-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2006
- Monday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.73992, longitude -2.73347, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Penwortham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Howick & Priory, South Ribble, PR1 0QT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200604CM06208
- Council area
- South Ribble
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- 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
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 112 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 2005.
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 7 January 1982
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 87 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 87, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200604CM06208 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ribble road accident statistics for 2006.