B6246 crash in Ribble Valley on 23 January 2013 at 16:55 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B6246 in Ribble Valley at 16:55 on Wednesday 23 January 2013. A 34-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jan 2013
- Wednesday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.82068, longitude -2.40424, in the BB7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whalley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whalley & Painter Wood, Ribble Valley, BB7 9UD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201304EN13007
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6246
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 March 2019.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B6246 in the Ribble Valley, 10 March 2019
4 m awayRef 2019040830977
Slight
MG ZR crash on the B6246 in the Ribble Valley, 26 June 2011
32 m awayRef 201104EN11068
Serious
Volvo crash on the B6246 in the Ribble Valley, 5 July 2025
32 m awayRef 2025041612152
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Hyndburn, 26 December 2005
36 m awayRef 200504EM05044
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 16 February 2019
58 m awayRef 2019040834052
Slight
Suzuki Splash crash on the B6246 in the Ribble Valley, 18 January 2024
62 m awayRef 2024041400200
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- 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 201304EN13007 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ribble Valley road accident statistics for 2013.