A671 crash in Ribble Valley on 20 July 2015 at 16:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Peugeot 307 were involved in a crash on the A671 in Ribble Valley at 16:30 on Monday 20 July 2015. The 69-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 307 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 2015
- Monday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80549, longitude -2.34404, in the BB12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Read. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Whalley, Read & Simonstone, Ribble Valley, BB12 7NR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504EG15158
- 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
- 671
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 2017.
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 17 August 2017
At the same spotRef 201704EG17173
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A682 in Burnley, 26 January 2006
At the same spotRef 200604FA06018
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 5 March 1996
At the same spotRef 199604K006996
Slight
Car crash on the A671 in Burnley, 12 March 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040FB0186
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 13 September 1998
At the same spotRef 199804E089098
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 9 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199704E059397
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 973 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 307)
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 201504EG15158 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 2015.