Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 20 December 2011 at 17:20 involving a Ford Fusion
A Ford Fusion crashed on an unclassified road in Chorley at 17:20 on Tuesday 20 December 2011. The 39-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2011
- Tuesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fusion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.63237, longitude -2.7249, in the PR7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104CA11153
- 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
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 1996.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 13 February 1996
16 m awayRef 199604C004896
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 10 June 1979
44 m awayRef 1979040JN0901
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 29 February 1988
74 m awayRef 1988040CF0358
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 22 June 1989
74 m awayRef 1989040CF0960
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 2 November 1996
242 m awayRef 199604C026396
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 15 May 1983
329 m awayRef 1983040JN0641
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fusion)
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 201104CA11153 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.