Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 26 February 2017 at 22:13 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Chorley at 22:13 on Sunday 26 February 2017. The 38-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2017
- Sunday, 22:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66422, longitude -2.64647, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chorley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chorley North & Astley, Chorley, PR7 1SU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201704SC17039
- Council area
- Chorley
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 1999.
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 27 September 1999
22 m awayRef 199904C087599
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 18 August 2024
44 m awayRef 2024041481456
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 22 January 1987
50 m awayRef 1987040CA0110
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 24 July 1992
50 m awayRef 1992040CA1228
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 17 September 1986
103 m awayRef 1986040CA1256
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 16 June 1984
161 m awayRef 1984040JA0852
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- 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 201704SC17039 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 2017.