B6245 crash in Ribble Valley on 29 July 2018 at 21:35 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 crashed on the B6245 in Ribble Valley at 21:35 on Sunday 29 July 2018. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jul 2018
- Sunday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.82628, longitude -2.55706, in the PR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201804EG18172
- 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
- 40 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
- 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, 15 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 January 2014.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6245 in the Ribble Valley, 16 January 2014
15 m awayRef 201404EN14003
Slight
Car crash on the B6245 in the Ribble Valley, 7 July 1990
22 m awayRef 1990040DF1761
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B6245 in the Ribble Valley, 25 July 2002
32 m awayRef 200204E060402
Slight
Car crash on the B6245 in the Ribble Valley, 27 January 1989
32 m awayRef 1989040DF0252
Slight
Car crash on the B6245 in Preston, 1 June 1981
36 m awayRef 1981040DD0778
Serious
Lorry crash on the B6245 in the Ribble Valley, 18 February 1987
78 m awayRef 1987040DF0360
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- 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 201804EG18172 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 2018.