A666 crash in Blackburn with Darwen on 9 December 2000 at 01:55 involving a Hyundai Atoz
A Hyundai Atoz crashed on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen at 01:55 on Saturday 9 December 2000. The 72-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2000
- Saturday, 01:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai Atoz
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71827, longitude -2.48397, in the BB2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackburn.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200004E097300
- Council area
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 666
- 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
- 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 28 March 2008.
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 28 March 2008
At the same spotRef 200804EA08109
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 24 December 2025
25 m awayRef 2025041687657
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 29 November 1998
51 m awayRef 199804E115798
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 14 March 2013
63 m awayRef 201304EA13070
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 21 June 1980
70 m awayRef 1980040EC0775
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 21 July 1998
71 m awayRef 199804E066198
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Atoz
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai Atoz)
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 200004E097300 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackburn with Darwen road accident statistics for 2000.