A6 crash in Chorley on 1 August 2009 at 12:00 involving a Peugeot 206
A taxi and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the A6 in Chorley at 12:00 on Saturday 1 August 2009. The 25-year-old male driver of the taxi and the 30-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 206 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2009
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Taxi and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65603, longitude -2.62897, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chorley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chorley North West, Chorley, PR7 2TX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200904CA09065
- Council area
- Chorley
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2020.
Slight
Nissan Note crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 15 December 2020
At the same spotRef 2020041007311
Slight
Audi TT crash on the A6 in Chorley, 17 July 2019
8 m awayRef 2019040859591
Serious
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 15 August 2013
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Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6 in Chorley, 17 April 2010
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Slight
Volvo S60 crash on the A6 in Chorley, 2 October 2009
10 m awayRef 200904CA09086
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A6 in Chorley, 8 July 2008
10 m awayRef 200804CA08063
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- 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
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Taxi)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
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 200904CA09065 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 2009.