B5248 crash in South Ribble on 6 June 2007 at 22:33 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the B5248 in South Ribble at 22:33 on Wednesday 6 June 2007. A 16-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jun 2007
- Wednesday, 22:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68316, longitude -2.7826, in the PR26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704CL07035
- Council area
- South Ribble
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5248
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2004.
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the B5248 in Chorley, 22 December 2004
10 m awayRef 200404C122204
Slight
Car crash on the B5248 in Chorley, 31 May 1986
10 m awayRef 1986040CF0709
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B5248 in Chorley, 12 April 2003
10 m awayRef 200304C028503
Slight
Car crash on the B5248 in Chorley, 22 November 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040JN1834
Slight
Car crash on the B5248 in Chorley, 3 June 1986
10 m awayRef 1986040CF0729
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 28 August 2006
14 m awayRef 200604CC06069
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200704CL07035 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 2007.