Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR6 on 19 May 2017 at 16:52 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chorley at 16:52 on Friday 19 May 2017. The 22-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 May 2017
- Friday, 16:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65493, longitude -2.61879, in the PR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chorley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chorley North West, Chorley, PR7 2TX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201704SC17111
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 February 1982.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6228 in Chorley, 3 February 1982
10 m awayRef 1982040JA0121
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B6228 in Chorley, 17 March 2014
13 m awayRef 201404CA14055
Slight
Car crash on the B6228 in Chorley, 5 July 1992
14 m awayRef 1992040CA0984
Serious
Nissan Primera crash on the B6228 in Chorley, 17 August 2001
14 m awayRef 200104C072201
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 16 September 2007
20 m awayRef 200704CA07096
Serious
Zontes ZT crash on the B6228 in Chorley, 21 July 2025
26 m awayRef 2025041627941
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 201704SC17111 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.