Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA2 on 26 May 2017 at 15:40 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 15:40 on Friday 26 May 2017. The 32-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus and a 6-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 2017
- Friday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.99285, longitude -2.79188, in the LA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Galgate.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201704WB17138
- Council area
- Lancaster
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 1980.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 25 November 1980
41 m awayRef 1980040BA1572
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 12 November 1983
54 m awayRef 1983040BA1543
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 30 April 2007
78 m awayRef 200704BA07078
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 21 April 1990
99 m awayRef 1990040BA0523
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 19 December 2007
106 m awayRef 200704BA07233
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 9 March 1986
106 m awayRef 1986040BA0292
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,521 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201704WB17138 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2017.