B6234 crash in Hyndburn on 5 November 2005 at 08:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn at 08:00 on Saturday 5 November 2005. The 55-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2005
- Saturday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.74229, longitude -2.40661, in the BB5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oswaldtwistle. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Andrew's, Hyndburn, BB5 3LN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hyndburn
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200504EL05085
- Council area
- Hyndburn
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6234
- 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
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 July 1985.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 19 July 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040HH0752
Slight
Car crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 8 October 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040HH1101
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hyndburn, 12 March 2010
10 m awayRef 201004EL10032
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 3 October 2010
10 m awayRef 201004EL10115
Slight
MG ZR crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 28 October 2012
11 m awayRef 201204EL12165
Serious
Volkswagen UP crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 19 November 2025
14 m awayRef 2025041670817
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200504EL05085 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hyndburn road accident statistics for 2005.