Unclassified road crash in Ribble Valley BB1 on 1 December 2019 at 13:04 involving a Mercedes GLC Class
Two Mercedes GLC Class cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ribble Valley at 13:04 on Sunday 1 December 2019. The 45-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 22-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2019
- Sunday, 13:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes GLC Class and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78233, longitude -2.51324, in the BB1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019040905267
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 November 2025.
Serious
Mazda 3 crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 6 November 2025
13 m awayRef 2025041674399
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 8 June 1997
29 m awayRef 199704E040497
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in the Ribble Valley, 26 August 2009
40 m awayRef 200904EN09083
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 7 August 1998
91 m awayRef 199804E073698
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 7 November 2003
103 m awayRef 200304E081303
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 4 March 1988
134 m awayRef 1988040EA0593
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes GLC Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes GLC Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes GLC Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes GLC Class)
- 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 2019040905267 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 2019.