A676 crash in Rossendale on 20 November 2001 at 00:05 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A676 in Rossendale at 00:05 on Tuesday 20 November 2001. The 19-year-old male driver and a 21-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Nov 2001
- Tuesday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66303, longitude -2.31051, in the BL0 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenfield & Eden, Rossendale, BL0 0LS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200104F088901
- 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
- 676
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 July 1983.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 16 July 1983
10 m awayRef 1983040HE0744
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A676 in Rossendale, 22 January 1994
14 m awayRef 199404P005394
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A676 in Rossendale, 14 December 2003
14 m awayRef 200304F091603
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A676 in Rossendale, 5 October 2001
14 m awayRef 200104F075501
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A676 in Rossendale, 26 November 2003
14 m awayRef 200304F083403
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 16 June 2023
16 m awayRef 2023041329656
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
- 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 200104F088901 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.