Unclassified road crash in Ribble Valley PR3 on 20 December 2016 at 11:37 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Ribble Valley at 11:37 on Tuesday 20 December 2016. The 47-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2016
- Tuesday, 11:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.8358, longitude -2.60962, in the PR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Longridge.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604EG16295
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Oil or diesel
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 December 2021.
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 14 December 2021
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Serious
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Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 12 July 1994
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Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 27 September 2021
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Slight
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Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Hyndburn, 6 July 2000
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 47, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- 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 201604EG16295 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.