Serious unclassified road crash in Wyre FY5 on 19 October 2014 at 19:30 involving a Honda Civic
Four vehicles, including a Honda Civic and a Vauxhall Vectra, were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wyre at 19:30 on Sunday 19 October 2014. A 46-year-old female passenger in the Volvo V40 was seriously injured and the 41-year-old male driver of the Volvo V40 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Oct 2014
- Sunday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 4
- Honda Civic and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.87625, longitude -3.03849, in the FY5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Jubilee, Wyre, FY5 3NJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404WD14028
- Council area
- Wyre
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 2019.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 12 October 2019
8 m awayRef 2019040890780
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 10 March 1979
13 m awayRef 1979040AN0230
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5412 in Wyre, 21 November 1980
13 m awayRef 1980040AN1209
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 17 October 1980
18 m awayRef 1980040AN1058
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5412 in Wyre, 22 October 1984
22 m awayRef 1984040AN1203
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 5 February 2023
27 m awayRef 2023041272533
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 3: Volvo V40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,948 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 4: Volkswagen UP
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Volvo V40)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Volvo V40)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201404WD14028 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre road accident statistics for 2014.