B6251 crash in Pendle on 3 November 2005 at 01:00 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on the B6251 in Pendle at 01:00 on Thursday 3 November 2005. The 17-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 2005
- Thursday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.93324, longitude -2.21381, in the BD23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Pendle
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200504FE05080
- Council area
- Pendle
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6251
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6251
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 29%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 71%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 February 1985.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6251 in the Ribble Valley, 24 February 1985
30 m awayRef 1985040GL0145
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6251 in Pendle, 28 May 2001
32 m awayRef 200104F038501
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B6251 in the Ribble Valley, 21 October 1993
32 m awayRef 199304F148993
Slight
Vauxhall Corsavan crash on the B6251 in Pendle, 26 January 2006
40 m awayRef 200604FE06009
Serious
Car crash on the B6251 in Pendle, 10 December 1982
81 m awayRef 1982040GL0988
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the B6251 in the Ribble Valley, 22 March 1996
82 m awayRef 199604K009596
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200504FE05080 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pendle road accident statistics for 2005.