B5261 crash in Fylde on 5 October 2015 at 15:10 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris, a Ford Focus and two cars were involved in a crash on the B5261 in Fylde at 15:10 on Monday 5 October 2015. The 38-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and an 86-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Yaris were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 2015
- Monday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 4
- Toyota Yaris and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77454, longitude -3.01568, in the FY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stanley, Blackpool, FY4 5DX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fylde
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504WA15411
- Council area
- Fylde
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5261
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 2019.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5261 in Fylde, 13 November 2019
3 m awayRef 2019040898360
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B5261 in Fylde, 12 January 1997
10 m awayRef 199704N000697
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B5261 in Fylde, 4 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200504AM05081
Serious
Seat Leon crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 22 April 2016
10 m awayRef 201604WA16020
Slight
Car crash on the B5261 in Fylde, 30 November 1980
10 m awayRef 1980040AK1258
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 13 August 2010
14 m awayRef 201004AM10131
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 86, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Yaris)
- 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 201504WA15411 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fylde road accident statistics for 2015.