Unclassified road crash in West Lancashire PR8 on 25 November 2007 at 18:25 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on an unclassified road in West Lancashire at 18:25 on Sunday 25 November 2007. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 2007
- Sunday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.61609, longitude -2.96881, in the PR8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rural West, West Lancashire, PR8 5HZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lancashire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704CK07246
- Council area
- West Lancashire
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 June 2007.
Serious
DAF Trucks FA 45LF crash on the B5243 in West Lancashire, 14 June 2007
At the same spotRef 200704CK07117
Serious
Mazda MX-5 crash on the B5243 in West Lancashire, 17 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200404C094604
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B5243 in West Lancashire, 22 July 2007
10 m awayRef 200704CK07142
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B5243 in West Lancashire, 26 July 2017
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Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B5243 in West Lancashire, 13 June 2007
10 m awayRef 200704CK07119
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in West Lancashire, 6 October 2007
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 200704CK07246 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lancashire road accident statistics for 2007.