Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 28 August 2014 at 16:10 involving a Citroen Berlingo
A Citroen Berlingo and a Vauxhall Vivaro van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chorley at 16:10 on Thursday 28 August 2014. The 72-year-old male driver of the Citroen Berlingo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 2014
- Thursday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Berlingo and Vauxhall Vivaro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6707, longitude -2.70216, in the PR7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404CA14167
- 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
- 60 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
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 February 1999.
Serious
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 11 February 1999
9 m awayRef 199904C014599
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 17 October 1988
38 m awayRef 1988040CA1722
Slight
BMW X2 crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 17 July 2024
51 m awayRef 2024041469535
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 17 July 1981
110 m awayRef 1981040JA0994
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 8 January 2003
110 m awayRef 200304C002903
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 10 December 2014
120 m awayRef 201404SC14093
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vivaro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Berlingo)
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 201404CA14167 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 2014.