Unclassified road crash in Pendle BB8 on 26 January 2001 at 19:45 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Pendle at 19:45 on Friday 26 January 2001. The 19-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 2001
- Friday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.85187, longitude -2.18011, in the BB8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Waterside & Horsfield, Pendle, BB8 9NL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200104F006001
- Council area
- Pendle
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 2000.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 21 January 2000
30 m awayRef 200004F004400
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 21 June 1996
63 m awayRef 199604K020796
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 26 December 2010
67 m awayRef 201004FE10088
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 12 June 1997
82 m awayRef 199704F027897
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 11 August 2012
84 m awayRef 201204FE12054
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 26 March 2003
110 m awayRef 200304F019803
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200104F006001 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pendle road accident statistics for 2001.