A581 crash in Chorley on 25 October 2012 at 08:40 involving a Peugeot 206
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 2012
- Thursday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Mitsubishi Shogun
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65924, longitude -2.66016, in the PR7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Euxton, Chorley, PR7 6NT area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201204CA12196
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 581
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5252
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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A581 in Chorley, 18 December 1992
6 m awayRef 1992040CA2013
Slight
Car crash on the A581 in Chorley, 26 January 1981
6 m awayRef 1981040JA0123
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A581 in Chorley, 21 October 1983
13 m awayRef 1983040JA1517
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A581 in Chorley, 19 July 2002
13 m awayRef 200204C071602
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A581 in Chorley, 29 October 2021
14 m awayRef 2021041105895
Slight
Rover Mini crash on the A581 in Chorley, 21 August 1997
18 m awayRef 199704C047297
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Mitsubishi Shogun
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 206)
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 201204CA12196 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 2012.