Serious B5254 crash in South Ribble on 23 December 2015 at 10:17 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira hit a pedestrian on the B5254 in South Ribble at 10:17 on Wednesday 23 December 2015. A 79-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 2015
- Wednesday, 10:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6896, longitude -2.71683, in the PR25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leyland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broadfield, South Ribble, PR25 1QY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504SC15342
- Council area
- South Ribble
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5254
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 March 2000.
Slight
Toyota Supra crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 17 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200004C022600
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5253 in South Ribble, 2 June 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040JD0861
Slight
Car crash on the B5253 in South Ribble, 19 October 1981
10 m awayRef 1981040JD1503
Slight
Car crash on the B5253 in South Ribble, 20 August 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040JD1268
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 3 February 2001
10 m awayRef 200104C010401
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 23 October 2015
10 m awayRef 201504SC15279
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 79, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201504SC15342 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 2015.