Serious unclassified road crash in Pendle BB18 on 6 December 2007 at 23:05 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 crashed on an unclassified road in Pendle at 23:05 on Thursday 6 December 2007. The 42-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Dec 2007
- Thursday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 307
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.8919, longitude -2.15684, in the BB18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Earby & Coates, Pendle, BB18 6TX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Pendle
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704FE07116
- Council area
- Pendle
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 April 1990.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A56 in Pendle, 13 April 1990
At the same spotRef 1990040FE0695
Slight
Car crash on the A56 in Pendle, 17 November 2004
32 m awayRef 200404F084804
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the A56 in Pendle, 19 February 2015
61 m awayRef 201504EG15030
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A56 in Pendle, 8 December 2007
63 m awayRef 200704FE07119
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A56 in the Ribble Valley, 12 January 1996
89 m awayRef 199604K001096
Serious
Honda CBR crash on the A56 in Pendle, 15 January 2022
90 m awayRef 2022041153158
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 307)
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 200704FE07116 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.