Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA3 on 3 July 2025 at 15:02 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and an Audi A3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 15:02 on Thursday 3 July 2025. The 38-year-old male driver of the Seat Ibiza was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Jul 2025
- Thursday, 15:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.02043, longitude -2.87071, in the LA3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025041612429
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 115 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2011.
Slight
Chrysler Voyager crash on a C road in Lancaster, 8 January 2011
115 m awayRef 201104BB11001
Serious
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 11 July 2003
255 m awayRef 200304B041103
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 31 January 2012
275 m awayRef 201204BB12009
Serious
Vehicle crash on a C road in Lancaster, 5 January 2009
277 m awayRef 200904BB09002
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 25 September 2005
305 m awayRef 200504BB05069
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 4 September 1981
332 m awayRef 1981040BG1179
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025041612429 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 2025.