Unclassified road crash in Ribble Valley BB6 on 4 April 2008 at 11:20 involving a bicycle
A bicycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Ribble Valley at 11:20 on Friday 4 April 2008. The 68-year-old male cyclist and a 58-year-old male pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 2008
- Friday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.81815, longitude -2.45459, in the BB6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200804EN08037
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- 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
- 40 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
- 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
- 47%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 53%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 68, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 58, hit by vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 200804EN08037 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ribble Valley road accident statistics for 2008.