Serious A682 crash in Rossendale on 28 April 2001 at 18:09 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series hit a pedestrian on the A682 in Rossendale at 18:09 on Saturday 28 April 2001. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Apr 2001
- Saturday, 18:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70677, longitude -2.28765, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rawtenstall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Goodshaw & Cribden, Rossendale, BB4 8HZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200104F029501
- 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
- 682
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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 26 July 2009.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A682 in Rossendale, 26 July 2009
At the same spotRef 200904FL09077
Slight
Car crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 11 April 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040HE0378
Slight
Nissan Pixo crash on the A682 in Rossendale, 1 December 2025
13 m awayRef 2025041711470
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A682 in Rossendale, 7 June 2009
14 m awayRef 200904FL09057
Slight
Car crash on the A682 in Rossendale, 4 January 1986
14 m awayRef 1986040EC0032
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A682 in Rossendale, 20 August 1996
14 m awayRef 199604P013596
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag approach lines
- 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 200104F029501 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.