B5254 crash in South Ribble on 14 December 2012 at 17:15 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander hit a pedestrian on the B5254 in South Ribble at 17:15 on Friday 14 December 2012. A 41-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2012
- Friday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.74816, longitude -2.71449, in the PR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Penwortham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broad Oak, South Ribble, PR1 9XJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201204CL12271
- Council area
- South Ribble
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5254
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 26 April 2012
1 m awayRef 201204CL12079
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5254 in South Ribble, 20 July 1990
4 m awayRef 1990040DH1884
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B5254 in South Ribble, 23 August 1997
6 m awayRef 199704D066497
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A582 in South Ribble, 13 June 1980
16 m awayRef 1980040JF0826
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B5254 in South Ribble, 25 August 2000
16 m awayRef 200004C071100
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B5254 in South Ribble, 20 October 1993
16 m awayRef 199304D167993
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
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 201204CL12271 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ribble road accident statistics for 2012.