Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 29 January 2011 at 18:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Rover 25 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chorley at 18:45 on Saturday 29 January 2011. The 29-year-old female driver of the Rover 25 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 2011
- Saturday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Rover 25
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65019, longitude -2.62793, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chorley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chorley North West, Chorley, PR7 2TX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104CA11010
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 July 2011.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 26 July 2011
4 m awayRef 201104CA11072
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Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 17 November 2010
7 m awayRef 201004CA10136
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Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 20 December 2008
7 m awayRef 200804CA08144
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Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 28 June 2008
7 m awayRef 200804CA08060
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Vauxhall Movano crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 11 April 2023
9 m awayRef 2023041295456
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 22 July 1994
16 m awayRef 199404C105794
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 80 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 25)
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 201104CA11010 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 2011.