Serious unclassified road crash in Chorley L40 on 21 July 2018 at 19:50 involving a Fiat Doblo
A Fiat Doblo crashed on an unclassified road in Chorley at 19:50 on Saturday 21 July 2018. A 29-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 49-year-old female driver and a 43-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jul 2018
- Saturday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Doblo
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.62981, longitude -2.76586, in the L40 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201804SC18177
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 11 June 1991
32 m awayRef 1991040CF0896
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 18 March 1994
61 m awayRef 199404C015794
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 18 May 1991
67 m awayRef 1991040CF0765
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 10 February 1994
80 m awayRef 199404C008194
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 14 May 2025
91 m awayRef 2025041590114
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 28 September 2001
112 m awayRef 200104C086201
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Doblo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Doblo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Doblo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Doblo)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201804SC18177 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.