Unclassified road crash in Blackpool FY1 on 25 October 2006 at 19:00 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool at 19:00 on Wednesday 25 October 2006. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 2006
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80615, longitude -3.04001, in the FY1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bloomfield, Blackpool, FY1 6JH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blackpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200604AX06119
- Council area
- Blackpool
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5261
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2017.
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Ford Mondeo crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 7 July 2017
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Renault Clio crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 25 May 2012
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Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 7 March 2023
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Slight
Fiat Stilo crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 17 June 2013
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Slight
Gilera Dna 50 crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 8 September 2007
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Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 17 October 2025
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
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 200604AX06119 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackpool road accident statistics for 2006.