C road crash in Chorley L40 on 19 January 2009 at 14:58 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series crashed on a C road in Chorley at 14:58 on Monday 19 January 2009. The 41-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jan 2009
- Monday, 14:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.63077, longitude -2.75365, in the L40 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200904CC09005
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 2001.
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Toyota Hiace crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 14 December 2005
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LDV 400 Series crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 7 July 2006
28 m awayRef 200604CC06075
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Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 10 November 2025
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Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 15 January 1997
42 m awayRef 199704C001597
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 24 July 1981
63 m awayRef 1981040JN1034
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
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 200904CC09005 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.