A681 crash in Rossendale on 19 March 2005 at 11:47 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A681 in Rossendale at 11:47 on Saturday 19 March 2005. A 15-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Mar 2005
- Saturday, 11:47
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69552, longitude -2.20473, 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
- 200504F021105
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 2019.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 5 November 2019
11 m awayRef 2019040897967
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 7 January 2019
18 m awayRef 2019040808943
Serious
BMW M Series crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 26 March 2025
21 m awayRef 2025041577010
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 10 August 2009
30 m awayRef 200904FJ09036
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 12 February 1979
30 m awayRef 1979040HG0153
Serious
Car crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 17 July 1979
30 m awayRef 1979040HG0697
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 200504F021105 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 2005.