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Serious A680 crash in Rossendale on 9 April 1993 at 19:50 involving a Porsche Carrera

A Porsche Carrera crashed on the A680 in Rossendale at 19:50 on Friday 9 April 1993. The 27-year-old male driver was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
9 Apr 1993
Friday, 19:50
Vehicles
1
Porsche Carrera
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64722, longitude -2.27196, in the BL0 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199304E102593
Council area
Rossendale
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
680
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 2002.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Porsche Carrera

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years
    Engine capacity
    3,164 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    4 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Porsche Carrera)

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 199304E102593 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 1993.