Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA4 on 22 August 2014 at 13:20 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort, a Honda Jazz and a Peugeot 3008 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 13:20 on Friday 22 August 2014. The 39-year-old female driver of the Honda Jazz was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2014
- Friday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Escort and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.06423, longitude -2.8433, in the LA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Morecambe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Torrisholme, Lancaster, LA3 3AF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404BB14100
- Council area
- Lancaster
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2007.
Slight
Rover Montego crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 26 January 2007
5 m awayRef 200704BB07017
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 10 September 1987
10 m awayRef 1987040BB1264
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 4 July 2008
33 m awayRef 200804BB08122
Serious
Citroen BX crash on a C road in Lancaster, 1 August 1994
37 m awayRef 199404B113394
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 5 July 2008
55 m awayRef 200804BB08123
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 19 April 2011
58 m awayRef 201104BB11045
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Jazz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,339 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 3008
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Jazz)
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 201404BB14100 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 2014.