Unclassified road crash in Rossendale BB4 on 17 November 2005 at 10:10 involving a Mazda 323
A Mazda 323 and a Vauxhall Combo van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale at 10:10 on Thursday 17 November 2005. The 27-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Combo van and a 20-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Combo van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2005
- Thursday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 323 and Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71575, longitude -2.32438, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haslingden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Haslingden, Rossendale, BB4 5BH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200504FL05114
- 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
- Frost or ice
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 slight injury crash on 15 December 2018.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 15 December 2018
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Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 4 November 2016
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Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A677 in Rossendale, 15 April 1992
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Slight
Bus crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 24 August 1981
10 m awayRef 1981040HH0827
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 28 November 1997
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 5 December 1998
10 m awayRef 199804F084298
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 323
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,324 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Combo)
- 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 200504FL05114 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.