Serious unclassified road crash in Chorley PR26 on 10 December 2011 at 01:30 involving a Citroen AX
A Citroen AX crashed on an unclassified road in Chorley at 01:30 on Saturday 10 December 2011. The 18-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Dec 2011
- Saturday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen AX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65711, longitude -2.76824, in the PR26 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104CA11142
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Frost or ice
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, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 February 1994.
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 9 February 1994
25 m awayRef 199404C009894
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 5 May 1984
25 m awayRef 1984040JN0623
Slight
Citroen DS3 crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 25 April 2015
89 m awayRef 201504SC15109
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 6 July 1992
97 m awayRef 1992040CF1021
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 12 September 1980
160 m awayRef 1980040JN1280
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 30 December 1993
307 m awayRef 199304C155393
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen AX)
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 201104CA11142 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.