Unclassified road crash in Fylde PR4 on 6 March 2024 at 17:20 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
A Vauxhall Meriva and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Fylde at 17:20 on Wednesday 6 March 2024. The 43-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Mar 2024
- Wednesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Meriva and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7766, longitude -2.91621, in the PR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wrea Green. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wrea Green with Westby, Fylde, PR4 2PJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Fylde
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024041420666
- Council area
- Fylde
- 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
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5259
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 1990.
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the B5259 in Fylde, 10 June 1990
2 m awayRef 1990040AK1399
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B5259 in Fylde, 29 September 2009
2 m awayRef 200904AL09171
Fatal
Car crash on the B5259 in Fylde, 6 July 1987
2 m awayRef 1987040AK1524
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the B5259 in Fylde, 11 March 2018
2 m awayRef 201804WA18096
Slight
Car crash on the B5259 in Fylde, 27 September 1991
2 m awayRef 1991040AK2597
Slight
Car crash on the B5259 in Fylde, 2 February 1986
2 m awayRef 1986040AK0228
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 43, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
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 2024041420666 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fylde road accident statistics for 2024.