C road crash in Hyndburn BB5 on 6 August 1995 at 20:10 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Nissan Sunny were involved in a crash on a C road in Hyndburn at 20:10 on Sunday 6 August 1995. A 36-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Sunny was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Aug 1995
- Sunday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Nissan Sunny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75253, longitude -2.38092, in the BB5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Accrington.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199504J017795
- Council area
- Hyndburn
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 24 March 1988.
Serious
Van crash on the A679 in Hyndburn, 24 March 1988
At the same spotRef 1988040EB0759
Fatal
Car crash on the A679 in Hyndburn, 7 April 1986
At the same spotRef 1986040EB0886
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hyndburn, 17 December 1990
At the same spotRef 1990040EB3709
Fatal
Lorry crash on the A679 in Hyndburn, 7 May 1987
At the same spotRef 1987040EB1126
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Hyndburn, 22 May 2025
9 m awayRef 2025041593640
Slight
Car crash on the A679 in Hyndburn, 13 June 1983
10 m awayRef 1983040HH0618
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Sunny)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 199504J017795 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hyndburn road accident statistics for 1995.