C road crash in Lancaster LA4 on 12 February 2011 at 14:00 involving a Fiat Ducato van
A Fiat Ducato van and two Vauxhall Corsas were involved in a crash on a C road in Lancaster at 14:00 on Saturday 12 February 2011. All five casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 2011
- Saturday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Fiat Ducato and 2 others
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.06112, longitude -2.85277, in the LA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Morecambe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westgate, Lancaster, LA3 3PL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104BB11022
- Council area
- Lancaster
- 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
- Other 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 1993.
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 5 February 1993
3 m awayRef 1993040BB0045
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Lancaster, 12 December 2009
3 m awayRef 200904BB09188
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 7 May 2025
10 m awayRef 2025041620343
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 4 November 1982
16 m awayRef 1982040BB1560
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 30 July 2017
17 m awayRef 201704WB17232
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 19 July 2005
19 m awayRef 200504BB05033
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Ducato
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 10, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201104BB11022 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2011.