Unclassified road crash in Ribble Valley BB2 on 13 May 2023 at 17:20 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ribble Valley at 17:20 on Saturday 13 May 2023. The 37-year-old male driver of the Audi A3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 May 2023
- Saturday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77253, longitude -2.51096, in the BB2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Billinge & Beardwood, Blackburn with Darwen, BB2 7GX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023041307227
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- 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
- 60 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 30 November 2007
1 m awayRef 200704EN07145
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 5 September 1987
97 m awayRef 1987040EA2167
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 5 December 2004
206 m awayRef 200404E093304
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 4 November 1981
213 m awayRef 1981040EC1218
Fatal
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 21 April 2007
230 m awayRef 200704EN07049
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 18 December 2009
240 m awayRef 200904EN09124
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,363 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A3)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2023041307227 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 2023.