B6243 crash in Ribble Valley on 24 May 2016 at 18:35 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the B6243 in Ribble Valley at 18:35 on Tuesday 24 May 2016. The 43-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 May 2016
- Tuesday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Fabia and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.8137, longitude -2.60778, in the PR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Longridge.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604EG16186
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6243
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 28 July 1999.
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B6243 in Blackburn with Darwen, 28 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199904E060099
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 30 October 2016
At the same spotRef 201604EG16244
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 16 August 2025
17 m awayRef 2025041690316
Serious
Nissan Primera crash on the B6243 in Hyndburn, 22 October 2001
22 m awayRef 200104E087601
Fatal
Van crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 11 November 1982
22 m awayRef 1982040DD1565
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 11 May 1991
22 m awayRef 1991040DF1214
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 82 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
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 201604EG16186 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 2016.