Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 31 January 2018 at 09:05 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus, a Volkswagen Golf and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chorley at 09:05 on Wednesday 31 January 2018. The 28-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf and a 23-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jan 2018
- Wednesday, 09:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Focus and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64793, longitude -2.63382, 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
- 201804SC18018
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 2006.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 13 October 2006
At the same spotRef 200604CA06097
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 15 December 2008
10 m awayRef 200804CA08139
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 13 May 1985
10 m awayRef 1985040JA0647
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 16 April 2014
14 m awayRef 201404CA14072
Slight
Van crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 24 March 1985
14 m awayRef 1985040JA1056
Serious
Car crash on the B5251 in Chorley, 17 September 1995
14 m awayRef 199504C022295
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201804SC18018 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 2018.