Serious A682 crash in Rossendale on 29 September 2006 at 05:40 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander crashed on the A682 in Rossendale at 05:40 on Friday 29 September 2006. The 35-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Sep 2006
- Friday, 05:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Land Rover Freelander
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68605, longitude -2.30598, in the BB4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenfield & Eden, Rossendale, BL0 0HY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200604FL06120
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 682
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 2012.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 24 December 2012
13 m awayRef 201204FL12107
Slight
MAN crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 14 January 1998
14 m awayRef 199804F005998
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 19 November 1994
14 m awayRef 199404P109794
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 18 April 1996
14 m awayRef 199604P006696
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 30 October 2001
14 m awayRef 200104F083001
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 13 December 2003
14 m awayRef 200304F086403
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover Freelander)
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 200604FL06120 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 2006.