A679 crash in Burnley on 10 November 2007 at 20:50 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A679 in Burnley at 20:50 on Saturday 10 November 2007. The 21-year-old male driver, a 17-year-old male passenger and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Nov 2007
- Saturday, 20:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77864, longitude -2.30119, in the BB11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hapton with Park, Burnley, BB11 5NA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Burnley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704FB07097
- Council area
- Burnley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 679
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 39%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 61%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a fatal crash on 26 October 2017.
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A679 in Burnley, 26 October 2017
51 m awayRef 201704EF17228
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A679 in Burnley, 20 February 2008
72 m awayRef 200804FB08014
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A679 in Burnley, 20 December 1997
95 m awayRef 199704F082597
Serious
Vauxhall crash on the A679 in Burnley, 28 December 1999
117 m awayRef 199904F086799
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A679 in Burnley, 26 March 2024
120 m awayRef 2024041425902
Serious
Car crash on the A679 in Burnley, 8 June 1988
140 m awayRef 1988040FH0924
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,488 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- 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 200704FB07097 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.