Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 26 June 2013 at 16:30 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 and another vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chorley at 16:30 on Wednesday 26 June 2013. A 76-year-old female passenger in the Citroen C1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jun 2013
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C1 and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6623, longitude -2.71498, in the PR7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Croston, Mawdesley & Euxton South, Chorley, PR7 6EN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201304CA13142
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1998.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A581 in Chorley, 17 December 1998
11 m awayRef 199804C123798
Slight
Honda CBF 125 crash on the A581 in Chorley, 15 November 2025
24 m awayRef 2025041669148
Slight
Volvo C70 crash on the A581 in Chorley, 16 October 2010
39 m awayRef 201004CA10116
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A581 in Chorley, 23 November 2010
39 m awayRef 201004CA10135
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A581 in Chorley, 11 June 2009
39 m awayRef 200904CA09052
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A581 in Chorley, 12 February 2008
46 m awayRef 200804CA08017
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)
- 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 201304CA13142 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 2013.