B5253 crash in South Ribble on 29 October 2016 at 10:45 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a Volkswagen Bora were involved in a crash on the B5253 in South Ribble at 10:45 on Saturday 29 October 2016. The 59-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 2016
- Saturday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Volkswagen Bora
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69127, longitude -2.72293, in the PR26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leyland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Broadfield, South Ribble, PR25 1QY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604SC16299
- Council area
- South Ribble
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5253
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5248
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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 June 2019.
Serious
Abarth 500 crash on the B5253 in South Ribble, 15 June 2019
10 m awayRef 2019040853770
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the B5248 in South Ribble, 6 January 2015
10 m awayRef 201504SC15002
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the B5248 in South Ribble, 24 November 2017
10 m awayRef 201704SC17306
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the B5248 in South Ribble, 26 July 2019
11 m awayRef 2019040862291
Fatal
Bicycle crash on the B5248 in South Ribble, 26 April 1980
14 m awayRef 1980040JD0563
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B5253 in South Ribble, 23 April 2018
14 m awayRef 201804SC18092
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,204 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Bora
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 201604SC16299 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ribble road accident statistics for 2016.