Serious A5083 crash in South Ribble on 21 October 2014 at 13:05 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo crashed on the A5083 in South Ribble at 13:05 on Tuesday 21 October 2014. The 73-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Oct 2014
- Tuesday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71285, longitude -2.68318, in the PR25 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Farington East, South Ribble, PR25 4QZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404SC14022
- Council area
- South Ribble
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5083
- 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
- Raining with 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 2000.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A5083 in South Ribble, 20 June 2000
5 m awayRef 200004C053300
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A5083 in South Ribble, 18 July 1998
5 m awayRef 199804C070098
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5083 in South Ribble, 7 September 2003
5 m awayRef 200304C077703
Slight
Car crash on the A5083 in South Ribble, 29 August 1988
5 m awayRef 1988040DC2124
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 25 February 2006
5 m awayRef 200604CL06019
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A5083 in South Ribble, 5 October 1996
5 m awayRef 199604M035896
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 201404SC14022 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ribble road accident statistics for 2014.