A682 crash in Rossendale on 19 December 2002 at 11:05 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo and a Renault Extra were involved in a crash on the A682 in Rossendale at 11:05 on Thursday 19 December 2002. The 60-year-old male driver of the Renault Extra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2002
- Thursday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Saxo and Renault Extra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70533, longitude -2.28613, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204F100202
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 682
- 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
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A682 in Rossendale, 4 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200104F083601
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A682 in Rossendale, 31 March 1990
At the same spotRef 1990040EC1019
Slight
Car crash on the A682 in Rossendale, 20 April 1989
At the same spotRef 1989040EC1100
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A682 in Rossendale, 5 February 2003
At the same spotRef 200304F008403
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A682 in Rossendale, 5 July 2025
12 m awayRef 2025041612228
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the A682 in Rossendale, 26 May 2002
20 m awayRef 200204F037302
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Extra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Extra)
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 200204F100202 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.