Serious unclassified road crash in Pendle BB8 on 28 February 2001 at 17:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Pendle at 17:00 on Wednesday 28 February 2001. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Feb 2001
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.85935, longitude -2.16341, in the BB8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Vivary Bridge, Pendle, BB8 9BY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200104F016601
- Council area
- Pendle
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 1992.
Slight
Opel Manta crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 10 April 1992
10 m awayRef 1992040FE0660
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 14 March 1979
14 m awayRef 1979040GD0210
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 20 June 2025
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Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A56 in Pendle, 27 October 2015
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Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 3 April 2007
32 m awayRef 200704FE07032
Serious
Mazda 323 crash on the A56 in Pendle, 14 August 1996
36 m awayRef 199604K028396
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200104F016601 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.