Unclassified road crash in Rossendale OL13 on 18 December 2002 at 20:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rossendale at 20:40 on Wednesday 18 December 2002. A 33-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2002
- Wednesday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70371, longitude -2.19916, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204F097302
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 681
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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 2013.
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 7 August 2013
32 m awayRef 201304FJ13029
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 8 December 2009
32 m awayRef 200904FJ09054
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 12 December 2017
60 m awayRef 201704EF17275
Slight
Chevrolet Spark crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 18 May 2016
76 m awayRef 201604EF16067
Slight
Car crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 29 November 2010
82 m awayRef 201004FJ10045
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 18 July 2009
82 m awayRef 200904FJ09031
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 33, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200204F097302 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.