A666 crash in Ribble Valley on 16 December 2014 at 15:12 involving a Nissan Primera
A Nissan Primera, a Ford Transit van and a Citroen C1 were involved in a crash on the A666 in Ribble Valley at 15:12 on Tuesday 16 December 2014. The 87-year-old female driver of the Nissan Primera and the 54-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 15:12
- Vehicles
- 3
- Nissan Primera and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79909, longitude -2.45473, in the BB6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Langho.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404EG14054
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 666
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 September 2014.
Serious
Car crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 22 September 2014
2 m awayRef 201404EN14098
Serious
Honda crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 12 September 1995
7 m awayRef 199504E043695
Slight
Car crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 8 January 1988
7 m awayRef 1988040EA0083
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 16 January 1990
7 m awayRef 1990040EA0165
Serious
Volvo 440 crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 23 March 2003
25 m awayRef 200304E020703
Slight
Car crash on the A666 in the Ribble Valley, 10 May 1989
25 m awayRef 1989040EA1247
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 87 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 3: Citroen C1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go 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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 87, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Primera)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 201404EG14054 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 2014.