Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA2 on 30 September 2013 at 01:30 involving a Volkswagen Touran taxi
A Volkswagen Touran taxi crashed on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 01:30 on Monday 30 September 2013. A 19-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2013
- Monday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Touran
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.00434, longitude -2.79041, in the LA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bailrigg.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201304BA13124
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 99 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2017.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Touran)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201304BA13124 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2013.