A581 crash in Chorley on 13 December 2017 at 06:03 involving a Daewoo Matiz
A bicycle and a Daewoo Matiz were involved in a crash on the A581 in Chorley at 06:03 on Wednesday 13 December 2017. The 14-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2017
- Wednesday, 06:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Daewoo Matiz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65358, longitude -2.63542, 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 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
- 201704SC17308
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 581
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 1996.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A581 in Chorley, 14 April 1996
At the same spotRef 199604C009296
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A581 in Chorley, 4 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200104C067901
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A581 in Chorley, 27 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200004C091300
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A581 in Chorley, 5 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199604C021696
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A581 in Chorley, 18 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200404C095204
Slight
Car crash on the A581 in Chorley, 1 February 1991
At the same spotRef 1991040CA0163
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Daewoo Matiz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 14, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 201704SC17308 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.