Unclassified road crash in Wyre PR3 on 20 December 2016 at 21:55 involving a Ford Ecosport
A Ford Ecosport and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wyre at 21:55 on Tuesday 20 December 2016. The 18-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2016
- Tuesday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Ecosport and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.91854, longitude -2.91444, in the PR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604WD16241
- 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
- 60 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
- A
- Second road number
- 588
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 27 February 2009.
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A588 in Wyre, 27 February 2009
At the same spotRef 200904BC09055
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A588 in Wyre, 27 November 2005
At the same spotRef 200504BC05146
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A588 in Wyre, 21 April 2018
At the same spotRef 201804WD18061
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A588 in Wyre, 1 March 2009
At the same spotRef 200904BC09071
Serious
BMW X3 crash on the A588 in Wyre, 2 May 2023
7 m awayRef 2023041303534
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A588 in Wyre, 9 December 2011
9 m awayRef 201104BC11260
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Ecosport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 201604WD16241 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.