B5261 crash in Fylde on 12 April 2010 at 15:00 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon, a Ford Focus and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the B5261 in Fylde at 15:00 on Monday 12 April 2010. The 21-year-old male driver of the Seat Leon and the 26-year-old female driver of the BMW 3 Series were 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
- 12 Apr 2010
- Monday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Seat Leon and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77498, longitude -3.01602, in the FY4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stanley, Blackpool, FY4 5DX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fylde
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201004AM10045
- Council area
- Fylde
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5261
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 2010.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B5261 in Fylde, 17 April 2010
10 m awayRef 201004AM10047
Slight
Suzuki SX4 crash on the B5261 in Fylde, 17 October 2022
10 m awayRef 2022041231348
Slight
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the B5261 in Fylde, 4 March 2007
20 m awayRef 200704AM07040
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 20 March 1998
20 m awayRef 199804A019798
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 17 January 1993
22 m awayRef 1993040AA0101
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5261 in Fylde, 21 June 2002
22 m awayRef 200204A041702
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 3: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (BMW 3 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 201004AM10045 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fylde road accident statistics for 2010.