B6243 crash in Ribble Valley on 9 December 2016 at 14:45 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B6243 in Ribble Valley at 14:45 on Friday 9 December 2016. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2016
- Friday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.83847, longitude -2.54143, in the PR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604EG16283
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Wet or damp
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 22 August 2009.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in the Ribble Valley, 22 August 2009
At the same spotRef 200904EP09013
Slight
Car crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 18 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982040DD0946
Slight
Hyundai X2 crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 4 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200604EP06032
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 7 June 2019
7 m awayRef 2019040893050
Slight
Volkswagen Fox crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 13 September 2014
9 m awayRef 201404EN14099
Slight
Nissan crash on the B6243 in the Ribble Valley, 15 March 2010
10 m awayRef 201004EP10007
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201604EG16283 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.