C road crash in South Ribble PR4 on 8 August 2009 at 12:15 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Proton Persona were involved in a crash on a C road in South Ribble at 12:15 on Saturday 8 August 2009. The 50-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Aug 2009
- Saturday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Proton Persona
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.73234, longitude -2.76775, in the PR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hutton. It is one of the crashes that make up the New Longton & Hutton East, South Ribble, PR4 5SJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200904CM09117
- Council area
- South Ribble
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2022.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 1 December 2022
15 m awayRef 2022041253255
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 17 November 1987
20 m awayRef 1987040DH2737
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 12 November 1998
20 m awayRef 199804C121998
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 19 December 1979
32 m awayRef 1979040JF2025
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 3 August 1994
36 m awayRef 199404M109894
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 28 September 1995
40 m awayRef 199504M037995
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Proton Persona
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go 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
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200904CM09117 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ribble road accident statistics for 2009.