B6254 crash in Lancaster on 30 November 2016 at 16:48 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A vehicle and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the B6254 in Lancaster at 16:48 on Wednesday 30 November 2016. The 55-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 2016
- Wednesday, 16:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.12423, longitude -2.69235, in the LA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604WB16391
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6254
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- B
- Second road number
- 6254
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 2002.
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B6254 in Lancaster, 25 July 2002
At the same spotRef 200204B048402
Slight
Car crash on the B6254 in Lancaster, 1 August 1982
10 m awayRef 1982040BD1062
Serious
Van crash on the B6254 in Lancaster, 16 February 1991
14 m awayRef 1991040BH0189
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the B6254 in Lancaster, 24 August 1990
22 m awayRef 1990040BH1239
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B6254 in Lancaster, 13 January 2015
45 m awayRef 201504WB15010
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B6254 in Lancaster, 2 August 1992
50 m awayRef 1992040BA1099
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 201604WB16391 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2016.