A671 crash in Ribble Valley on 23 April 2008 at 17:59 involving a Seat Arosa
A Seat Arosa and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A671 in Ribble Valley at 17:59 on Wednesday 23 April 2008. The 19-year-old male driver of the Seat Arosa was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 2008
- Wednesday, 17:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Arosa and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.86033, longitude -2.39757, in the BB7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200804EN08047
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 671
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 1988.
Slight
Van crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 18 February 1988
At the same spotRef 1988040FC0270
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 26 September 2016
54 m awayRef 201604EG16224
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 8 October 2010
54 m awayRef 201004EN10113
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 6 February 2019
61 m awayRef 2019040828842
Fatal
Skoda Octavia crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 28 January 2018
73 m awayRef 201804EG18017
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 21 October 1994
98 m awayRef 199404K117494
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Arosa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Arosa)
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 200804EN08047 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.