Unclassified road crash in Burnley BB11 on 22 December 2007 at 03:30 involving a London Taxis Int. Txii
A London Taxis Int. Txii and a Vauxhall Astra taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Burnley at 03:30 on Saturday 22 December 2007. A 20-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra taxi and a 20-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra taxi were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2007
- Saturday, 03:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- London Taxis Int. Txii and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78991, longitude -2.24906, in the BB11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Daneshouse with Stoneyholme, Burnley, BB11 1NQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704FA07203
- Council area
- Burnley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
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
- Unclassified
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A671 in Burnley, 26 January 1980
At the same spotRef 1980040FA0088
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A679 in Burnley, 13 November 2009
At the same spotRef 200904FA09170
Slight
Bus crash on the A671 in Burnley, 12 April 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040FA0268
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 10 March 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040FA0173
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A671 in Burnley, 30 September 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040FA0756
Slight
Car crash on the A671 in Burnley, 7 September 1990
10 m awayRef 1990040FA1625
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: London Taxis Int. Txii
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200704FA07203 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Burnley road accident statistics for 2007.