B6527 crash in Rossendale on 20 December 2000 at 12:52 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the B6527 in Rossendale at 12:52 on Wednesday 20 December 2000. The 72-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2000
- Wednesday, 12:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69161, longitude -2.30935, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haslingden.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200004F076300
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6527
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 1993.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6527 in Rossendale, 21 November 1993
14 m awayRef 199304E177393
Slight
Bus crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 17 August 1995
28 m awayRef 199504P012495
Slight
Bedford crash on the B6527 in Rossendale, 16 August 1995
28 m awayRef 199504P012395
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B6527 in Rossendale, 15 September 2010
50 m awayRef 201004FL10096
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B6527 in Rossendale, 1 October 2016
85 m awayRef 201604EF16270
Serious
Van crash on the B6527 in Rossendale, 7 April 1984
89 m awayRef 1984040HE0363
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200004F076300 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 2000.