Serious unclassified road crash in Pendle BB8 on 10 August 2001 at 13:30 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Pendle at 13:30 on Friday 10 August 2001. A 2-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Aug 2001
- Friday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.85987, longitude -2.17756, 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
- 200104F058501
- 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
- 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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 4 November 1997
20 m awayRef 199704F066997
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 7 July 1985
50 m awayRef 1985040GD0550
Slight
Lexus IS200 crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 9 September 2007
54 m awayRef 200704FE07079
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 7 November 1979
58 m awayRef 1979040GD0987
Serious
Audi 80 crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 23 June 2001
60 m awayRef 200104F044601
Slight
Optare crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 3 December 2012
63 m awayRef 201204FE12079
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 2, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200104F058501 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.