Unclassified road crash in Rossendale BB4 on 30 June 1979 at 16:40 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale at 16:40 on Saturday 30 June 1979. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jun 1979
- Saturday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69375, longitude -2.24227, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rawtenstall.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979040HM0636
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 November 2007.
Slight
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Serious
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Serious
Leyland DAF crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 8 January 1998
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Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 11 August 2016
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Slight
Rover Montego crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 7 May 1996
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1979040HM0636 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rossendale road accident statistics for 1979.