A681 crash in Rossendale on 8 February 2002 at 00:05 involving a car
A car and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A681 in Rossendale at 00:05 on Friday 8 February 2002. The 44-year-old male driver of the taxi was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 2002
- Friday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70227, longitude -2.20113, in the OL13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bacup. It is one of the crashes that make up the Britannia & Lee Mill, Rossendale, OL13 0AX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204F008502
- 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
- 681
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 August 1996.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 10 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199604P018496
Slight
Lorry crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 24 March 1986
At the same spotRef 1986040EG0949
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 3 December 2015
At the same spotRef 201504EF15372
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 1 February 1991
At the same spotRef 1991040EG0298
Slight
Van crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 1 October 1980
At the same spotRef 1980040HG1011
Slight
Car crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 7 January 1993
At the same spotRef 1993040EG0014
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, taxi occupant, in vehicle 2 (Taxi)
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 200204F008502 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 2002.