B5261 crash in Fylde on 4 March 2007 at 14:20 involving a Volkswagen Lupo
A Volkswagen Lupo and a car were involved in a crash on the B5261 in Fylde at 14:20 on Sunday 4 March 2007. The 21-year-old male driver of the car, a 51-year-old female passenger in the car and a 17-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Mar 2007
- Sunday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Lupo and car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7748, longitude -3.01602, in the FY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stanley, Blackpool, FY4 5DX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fylde
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704AM07040
- Council area
- Fylde
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5261
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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 with 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 2010.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B5261 in Fylde, 17 April 2010
10 m awayRef 201004AM10047
Slight
Suzuki SX4 crash on the B5261 in Fylde, 17 October 2022
13 m awayRef 2022041231348
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 5 November 2013
14 m awayRef 201304AM13173
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5261 in Fylde, 12 September 1979
14 m awayRef 1979040AK0977
Serious
Ford KA crash on the B5261 in Fylde, 7 February 2006
14 m awayRef 200604AM06025
Slight
Ford crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 12 December 2009
14 m awayRef 200904AM09230
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Lupo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200704AM07040 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fylde road accident statistics for 2007.