Serious B5257 crash in South Ribble on 8 December 2009 at 16:15 involving a Rover 25
A Rover 25 hit a pedestrian on the B5257 in South Ribble at 16:15 on Tuesday 8 December 2009. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Dec 2009
- Tuesday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 25
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.72734, longitude -2.68839, in the PR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bamber Bridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lostock Hall, South Ribble, PR5 5LN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200904CM09204
- Council area
- South Ribble
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5257
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2014.
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B5257 in South Ribble, 13 January 2014
7 m awayRef 201404CL14012
Slight
Car crash on the B5257 in South Ribble, 8 July 2005
10 m awayRef 200504CM05060
Serious
Volvo crash on the B5257 in South Ribble, 13 February 2007
10 m awayRef 200704CM07033
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the B5257 in South Ribble, 22 May 2009
10 m awayRef 200904CM09074
Serious
Car crash on the B5257 in South Ribble, 14 December 1991
14 m awayRef 1991040DG3476
Slight
Bus crash on the B5257 in South Ribble, 8 November 2000
14 m awayRef 200004C097100
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover 25)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200904CM09204 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.