Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA4 on 3 December 2020 at 02:15 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A Volkswagen Transporter van crashed on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 02:15 on Thursday 3 December 2020. A 28-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2020
- Thursday, 02:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.08095, longitude -2.83659, in the LA4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020041017516
- Council area
- Lancaster
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1991.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A5105 in Lancaster, 22 June 1991
25 m awayRef 1991040BB0779
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5105 in Lancaster, 7 August 1986
25 m awayRef 1986040BB1050
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 9 July 2022
25 m awayRef 2022041196750
Slight
Car crash on the A5105 in Lancaster, 13 December 1991
25 m awayRef 1991040BB1755
Slight
Fiat Doblo crash on the A5105 in Lancaster, 12 August 2009
25 m awayRef 200904BB09118
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A5105 in Lancaster, 16 September 2006
25 m awayRef 200604BB06157
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2020041017516 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2020.