A56 crash in Rossendale on 20 March 1986 at 10:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A56 in Rossendale at 10:15 on Thursday 20 March 1986. The 18-year-old female driver, a 17-year-old female passenger and a 20-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Mar 1986
- Thursday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68417, longitude -2.30611, in the BB4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986040EC0737
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 56
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 September 2010.
Serious
BMW X5 crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 16 September 2010
20 m awayRef 201004FL10098
Slight
Volvo crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 12 March 2008
32 m awayRef 200804FL08025
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 10 November 2025
40 m awayRef 2025041666316
Slight
Citroen C8 crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 7 May 2018
41 m awayRef 201804EF18106
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 27 March 2007
41 m awayRef 200704FL07020
Slight
Car crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 6 December 1982
45 m awayRef 1982040HE1231
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1986040EC0737 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 1986.