Serious B5262 crash in Blackpool on 20 November 2015 at 08:50 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the B5262 in Blackpool at 08:50 on Friday 20 November 2015. The 25-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Nov 2015
- Friday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Clio and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79779, longitude -3.0504, in the FY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bloomfield, Blackpool, FY1 6JH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blackpool
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504WA15482
- Council area
- Blackpool
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5262
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2006.
Slight
Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox crash on the B5262 in Blackpool, 9 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200604AM06217
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on the B5262 in Blackpool, 8 April 1994
At the same spotRef 199404A030194
Slight
Piaggio Zip crash on the B5262 in Blackpool, 20 April 2015
At the same spotRef 201504WA15145
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B5262 in Blackpool, 31 January 2024
1 m awayRef 2024041405019
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 4 March 2019
5 m awayRef 2019040840065
Slight
Daihatsu Charade crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 25 August 1994
10 m awayRef 199404A119994
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 201504WA15482 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackpool road accident statistics for 2015.