Serious A680 crash in Rossendale on 27 January 2001 at 00:30 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the A680 in Rossendale at 00:30 on Saturday 27 January 2001. A 19-year-old male passenger in the Rover Metro was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Jan 2001
- Saturday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover Metro and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66441, longitude -2.29584, in the BL0 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200104F006201
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 680
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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 lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 30 March 2002.
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 30 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200204F021702
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 27 September 2008
10 m awayRef 200804FL08104
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 2 February 2002
14 m awayRef 200204F007402
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 25 December 2017
30 m awayRef 201704EF17293
Slight
Car crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 15 December 1989
36 m awayRef 1989040EC3751
Slight
Car crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 4 December 1987
36 m awayRef 1987040EC3073
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200104F006201 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 2001.