Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 28 November 2012 at 15:30 involving a Seat Leon
A lorry and a Seat Leon were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chorley at 15:30 on Wednesday 28 November 2012. A 7-year-old male passenger in the Seat Leon was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 2012
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64757, longitude -2.62789, 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
- 201204CA12221
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 1995.
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 11 June 1995
3 m awayRef 199504C015095
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A6 in Chorley, 8 September 1980
3 m awayRef 1980040JA1258
Serious
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 21 November 2008
7 m awayRef 200804CA08134
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A6 in Chorley, 7 October 2012
12 m awayRef 201204CA12173
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 29 November 1982
13 m awayRef 1982040JA1698
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A6 in Chorley, 22 June 1981
13 m awayRef 1981040JA0875
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 7, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Leon)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 201204CA12221 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.