A56 crash in Rossendale on 8 November 2002 at 18:09 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 crashed on the A56 in Rossendale at 18:09 on Friday 8 November 2002. The 26-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Nov 2002
- Friday, 18:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68479, longitude -2.30597, in the BB4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenfield & Eden, Rossendale, BL0 0HY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204F084202
- 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
- 56
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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 18 December 2008.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 18 December 2008
At the same spotRef 200804FL08140
Slight
Car crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 9 October 1983
14 m awayRef 1983040HE1060
Fatal
Van crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 27 January 1986
20 m awayRef 1986040EC0247
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 29 August 1981
22 m awayRef 1981040HE0831
Slight
Lorry crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 14 March 2022
25 m awayRef 2022041182285
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 19 June 2007
30 m awayRef 200704FL07050
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 200204F084202 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.