A56 crash in Rossendale on 15 November 2006 at 11:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A56 in Rossendale at 11:00 on Wednesday 15 November 2006. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 2006
- Wednesday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70521, longitude -2.33203, in the BB4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenfield & Eden, Rossendale, BB4 5EB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200604FL06143
- 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
- 56
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no 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
- 38%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 62%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 2003.
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 16 March 2003
14 m awayRef 200304F017303
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 4 November 2002
14 m awayRef 200204F082502
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 5 October 2015
20 m awayRef 201504EF15297
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 27 November 2023
41 m awayRef 2023041381440
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 24 January 2010
42 m awayRef 201004FL10011
Serious
Car crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 15 November 1988
51 m awayRef 1988040EH2975
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 200604FL06143 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.