Serious C road crash in Rossendale BB4 on 13 September 2001 at 23:40 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa hit a pedestrian on a C road in Rossendale at 23:40 on Thursday 13 September 2001. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Sep 2001
- Thursday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70408, longitude -2.28203, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rawtenstall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longholme, Rossendale, BB4 8SQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200104F068501
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 15 May 1999.
Serious
Fiat Brava crash on a C road in Rossendale, 15 May 1999
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 5 October 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040HE1023
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Rossendale, 19 March 2005
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Fatal
Ford crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 27 April 1991
At the same spotRef 1991040EC1000
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 29 July 1991
At the same spotRef 1991040EC1984
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 20 March 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040HE0324
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,195 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 200104F068501 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.