Serious B5439 crash in Wyre on 4 July 2019 at 20:40 involving a Nissan Qashqai
A Nissan Qashqai, a Peugeot 208 and a goods vehicle were involved in a crash on the B5439 in Wyre at 20:40 on Thursday 4 July 2019. The 35-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 208 was seriously injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jul 2019
- Thursday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Nissan Qashqai and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.87449, longitude -3.00222, in the FY5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Thornton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bourne, Wyre, FY5 4NB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019040854938
- Council area
- Wyre
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5439
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Involvement with previous collision
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 1980.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5439 in Wyre, 13 May 1980
6 m awayRef 1980040AG0477
Slight
Car crash on the B5439 in Wyre, 9 January 1999
7 m awayRef 199904B002199
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B5439 in Wyre, 11 January 2003
7 m awayRef 200304B000903
Slight
Bus crash on the B5439 in Fylde, 24 June 1997
7 m awayRef 199704B040197
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B5439 in Wyre, 19 January 1994
7 m awayRef 199404G006194
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 14 December 2016
15 m awayRef 201604WD16234
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Qashqai
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Previous accident
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 208)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2019040854938 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre road accident statistics for 2019.