Unclassified road crash in Pendle BB8 on 30 October 2007 at 22:15 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 crashed on an unclassified road in Pendle at 22:15 on Tuesday 30 October 2007. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 2007
- Tuesday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.85527, longitude -2.18939, in the BB8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colne. It is one of the crashes that make up the Waterside & Horsfield, Pendle, BB8 9NL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Pendle
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704FE07095
- Council area
- Pendle
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 August 2005.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A6068 in Pendle, 24 August 2005
28 m awayRef 200504FE05047
Slight
Mitsubishi crash on the A6068 in Pendle, 10 August 2009
32 m awayRef 200904FE09053
Slight
Car crash on the A6068 in Pendle, 17 November 2008
41 m awayRef 200804FE08079
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A6068 in Pendle, 20 February 2006
50 m awayRef 200604FE06026
Slight
Volvo 360 crash on the A6068 in Pendle, 4 March 1999
57 m awayRef 199904F013199
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A6068 in Pendle, 23 August 1997
57 m awayRef 199704F046597
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
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 200704FE07095 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pendle road accident statistics for 2007.