A6 crash in Chorley on 19 August 2016 at 16:25 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo, a Nissan Qashqai and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the A6 in Chorley at 16:25 on Friday 19 August 2016. The 56-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo and the 74-year-old female driver of the Nissan Micra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Aug 2016
- Friday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volkswagen Polo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.61076, longitude -2.60532, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Adlington.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604SC16219
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 April 2014.
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the A6 in Chorley, 12 April 2014
9 m awayRef 201404CA14083
Serious
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 17 November 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040JJ1815
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 21 November 1981
10 m awayRef 1981040JJ1705
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A6 in Chorley, 24 January 1997
20 m awayRef 199704C002597
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M61 in Chorley, 10 March 1997
20 m awayRef 199704C005997
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A6 in Chorley, 3 August 1999
20 m awayRef 199904C075399
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Nissan Micra)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201604SC16219 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 2016.