Unclassified road crash in Wyre FY7 on 4 October 2016 at 20:55 involving a Toyota Starlet
A Toyota Starlet and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wyre at 20:55 on Tuesday 4 October 2016. A 57-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 2016
- Tuesday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Starlet and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.92054, longitude -3.0226, in the FY7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fleetwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mount, Wyre, FY7 6TL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604WD16201
- Council area
- Wyre
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 2001.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A587 in Wyre, 14 June 2001
10 m awayRef 200104B035101
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on the A587 in Wyre, 21 December 1994
10 m awayRef 199404G115894
Slight
Car crash on the A587 in Wyre, 20 December 1992
10 m awayRef 1992040AC3402
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A587 in Wyre, 13 September 2000
10 m awayRef 200004B077100
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A587 in Wyre, 28 January 1983
10 m awayRef 1983040AF0075
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A587 in Wyre, 22 December 1992
10 m awayRef 1992040AC3444
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Starlet
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,332 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
- 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 201604WD16201 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre road accident statistics for 2016.