B6238 crash in Rossendale on 6 September 2005 at 11:03 involving a Leyland DAF FA 45 lorry
A van, a Leyland DAF FA 45 lorry and a Citroen Xsara were involved in a crash on the B6238 in Rossendale at 11:03 on Tuesday 6 September 2005. The 44-year-old male driver of the Citroen Xsara 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
- 6 Sep 2005
- Tuesday, 11:03
- Vehicles
- 3
- Leyland DAF FA 45 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6949, longitude -2.24865, 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
- 200504FJ05025
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6238
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 January 1980.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 12 January 1980
20 m awayRef 1980040HM0052
Serious
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 16 April 1990
22 m awayRef 1990040EK1099
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 2 February 1981
22 m awayRef 1981040HM0126
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 25 March 1985
22 m awayRef 1985040HM0325
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 21 October 2025
26 m awayRef 2025041659631
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 20 November 2019
27 m awayRef 2019040901128
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Vehicle 2: Leyland DAF FA 45
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Citroen Xsara)
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 200504FJ05025 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.