Fatal A680 crash in Rossendale on 1 October 1998 at 20:15 involving a Citroen AX
A Citroen AX hit a pedestrian on the A680 in Rossendale at 20:15 on Thursday 1 October 1998. A 51-year-old male pedestrian was killed.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 1 Oct 1998
- Thursday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen AX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7258, longitude -2.33218, in the BB5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rising Bridge.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199804F067298
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 680
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 February 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 3 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199804F008998
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 26 April 1995
At the same spotRef 199504P005295
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 24 June 2016
At the same spotRef 201604EF16179
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 7 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200004F057300
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 25 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199804F062398
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 8 October 1992
At the same spotRef 1992040EH2771
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 954 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
FatalMale, aged 51, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen AX)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199804F067298 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 1998.