B6238 crash in Rossendale on 17 December 1998 at 17:40 involving a Nissan Micra
A bicycle and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the B6238 in Rossendale at 17:40 on Thursday 17 December 1998. The 41-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 1998
- Thursday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69508, longitude -2.25167, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rawtenstall.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199804F087098
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6238
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 2002.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 26 April 2002
22 m awayRef 200204F028902
Slight
Car crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 27 November 1982
22 m awayRef 1982040HM1245
Serious
Daewoo Nexia crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 16 August 1998
28 m awayRef 199804F054898
Slight
Bus crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 16 February 1980
30 m awayRef 1980040HM0186
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 8 May 1995
36 m awayRef 199504P005695
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 11 October 2024
42 m awayRef 2024041502794
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 41, on vehicle 1 (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 199804F087098 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.