Unclassified road crash in Rossendale BB4 on 21 April 2005 at 17:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rossendale at 17:30 on Thursday 21 April 2005. An 11-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 21 Apr 2005
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69472, longitude -2.24895, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rawtenstall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hareholme & Waterfoot, Rossendale, BB4 9AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200504F029905
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 December 1995.
Serious
Lada Samara crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 23 December 1995
22 m awayRef 199504P019995
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 6 September 2005
28 m awayRef 200504FJ05025
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 7 January 2024
35 m awayRef 2024041395690
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 4 February 1984
40 m awayRef 1984040HM0144
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 2 February 1981
41 m awayRef 1981040HM0126
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 12 January 1980
45 m awayRef 1980040HM0052
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200504F029905 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.