B6249 crash in Pendle on 1 September 2001 at 19:20 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on the B6249 in Pendle at 19:20 on Saturday 1 September 2001. The 38-year-old male driver of the BMW 5 Series and a 66-year-old female passenger in the BMW 5 Series were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 2001
- Saturday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.83983, longitude -2.2261, in the BB9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barrowford & Pendleside, Pendle, BB9 6BU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200104F065301
- Council area
- Pendle
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6249
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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 11 January 1997.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the B6249 in Pendle, 11 January 1997
At the same spotRef 199704K000597
Serious
Car crash on the B6249 in Pendle, 1 June 1987
At the same spotRef 1987040FB0845
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6249 in Pendle, 20 July 2002
At the same spotRef 200204F050802
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6249 in Pendle, 1 February 2001
At the same spotRef 200104F007701
Slight
E-scooter crash on the B6249 in Pendle, 6 July 2025
20 m awayRef 2025041612390
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6249 in Pendle, 3 May 1996
45 m awayRef 199604K015396
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 5 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 5 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200104F065301 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.