B5262 crash in Blackpool on 25 March 2011 at 08:40 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on the B5262 in Blackpool at 08:40 on Friday 25 March 2011. The 50-year-old female driver of the Mercedes A Class 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
- 25 Mar 2011
- Friday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79994, longitude -3.05094, in the FY1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bloomfield, Blackpool, FY1 6JH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104AM11044
- Council area
- Blackpool
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5262
- 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, 3 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 March 2024.
Serious
Kia Rio crash on the B5262 in Blackpool, 9 March 2024
3 m awayRef 2024041418944
Slight
Car crash on the B5262 in Blackpool, 6 July 1984
10 m awayRef 1984040CD0876
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B5262 in Blackpool, 30 October 2015
10 m awayRef 201504WA15445
Slight
Bus crash on the B5262 in Blackpool, 11 October 1989
10 m awayRef 1989040AB2591
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B5262 in Blackpool, 19 October 2009
10 m awayRef 200904AM09187
Slight
Car crash on the B5262 in Blackpool, 6 October 1979
14 m awayRef 1979040CG1403
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes A Class)
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 201104AM11044 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackpool road accident statistics for 2011.