A6 crash in South Ribble on 6 July 2018 at 10:28 involving a DS DS3
A DS DS3 and a car were involved in a crash on the A6 in South Ribble at 10:28 on Friday 6 July 2018. The 70-year-old female driver of the DS DS3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jul 2018
- Friday, 10:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- DS DS3 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71882, longitude -2.6561, in the PR5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bamber Bridge West, South Ribble, PR5 6JN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201804SC18161
- Council area
- South Ribble
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M6 in South Ribble, 4 October 2015
10 m awayRef 201504SA15454
Slight
Renault Espace crash on the A6 in South Ribble, 17 October 2006
10 m awayRef 200604CM06174
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A6 in South Ribble, 7 May 1991
10 m awayRef 1991040DG1174
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6 in South Ribble, 6 August 1991
10 m awayRef 1991040DG2048
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A6 in South Ribble, 3 September 1994
14 m awayRef 199404M114694
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A6 in South Ribble, 8 May 1990
14 m awayRef 1990040DG1201
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DS DS3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (DS DS3)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201804SC18161 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ribble road accident statistics for 2018.