B6245 crash in Ribble Valley on 5 December 2017 at 08:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the B6245 in Ribble Valley at 08:15 on Tuesday 5 December 2017. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2017
- Tuesday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79019, longitude -2.48341, in the BB1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackburn, Blackburn with Darwen.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201704ED17481
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6245
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2008.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B6245 in the Ribble Valley, 10 May 2008
30 m awayRef 200804EN08049
Slight
Car crash on the B6245 in the Ribble Valley, 7 May 1989
32 m awayRef 1989040EA1207
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B6245 in Blackburn with Darwen, 12 October 1998
45 m awayRef 199804E101498
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6245 in Blackburn with Darwen, 18 June 1998
54 m awayRef 199804E053598
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 13 January 1981
85 m awayRef 1981040EC0096
Slight
Car crash on the B6245 in Blackburn with Darwen, 19 August 1984
92 m awayRef 1984040EC0977
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201704ED17481 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ribble Valley road accident statistics for 2017.