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A56 crash in Rossendale on 17 August 1987 at 17:30 involving a car

A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A56 in Rossendale at 17:30 on Monday 17 August 1987. The 14-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
17 Aug 1987
Monday, 17:30
Vehicles
2
Car and bicycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66285, longitude -2.31034, in the BL0 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1987040EC2149
Council area
Rossendale
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
56
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
676

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
Special conditions at the site
Roadworks
Carriageway hazards
Roadworks

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 1997.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    East
    Hit object in carriageway
    Central island of roundabout
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    53 years

  • Vehicle 2: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    East
    Hit object in carriageway
    Central island of roundabout
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    14 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, aged 14, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)

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 1987040EC2149 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 1987.