Serious A674 crash in Chorley on 19 December 2007 at 13:36 involving a Toyota Corolla
A Toyota Corolla and a Mini One were involved in a crash on the A674 in Chorley at 13:36 on Wednesday 19 December 2007. The 82-year-old female driver of the Toyota Corolla was seriously injured and the 54-year-old female driver of the Mini One was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 2007
- Wednesday, 13:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Corolla and Mini One
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67937, longitude -2.6163, in the PR6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704CA07129
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 674
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 2006.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A674 in Chorley, 2 October 2006
10 m awayRef 200604CC06089
Serious
Car crash on the A674 in Chorley, 21 November 1980
10 m awayRef 1980040JQ1678
Slight
LDV 400 Series crash on the A674 in Chorley, 31 May 2006
14 m awayRef 200604CA06048
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B6228 in Chorley, 7 October 2000
14 m awayRef 200004C086500
Slight
Opel Manta crash on the B6228 in Chorley, 9 January 1995
32 m awayRef 199504C000695
Slight
Car crash on the A674 in Chorley, 13 December 1983
50 m awayRef 1983040JQ1817
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,331 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Mini One
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 82, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Corolla)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini One)
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 200704CA07129 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 2007.