Serious A6 crash in Lancaster on 6 November 2009 at 12:49 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A6 in Lancaster at 12:49 on Friday 6 November 2009. The 17-year-old male driver was seriously injured and an 18-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Nov 2009
- Friday, 12:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.01996, longitude -2.79578, in the LA1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Scotforth East, Lancaster, LA1 4PS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200904BA09231
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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 9 October 2009.
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 9 October 2009
10 m awayRef 200904BA09211
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 28 September 2009
10 m awayRef 200904BA09190
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 20 December 2006
14 m awayRef 200604BA06244
Serious
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 25 March 2006
14 m awayRef 200604BA06103
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 9 December 1991
22 m awayRef 1991040BA1760
Serious
Car crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 16 August 1985
22 m awayRef 1985040BA1151
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200904BA09231 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2009.