Unclassified road crash in Pendle BB9 on 21 April 2007 at 17:40 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a Renault Megane were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Pendle at 17:40 on Saturday 21 April 2007. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2007
- Saturday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and Renault Megane
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.82562, longitude -2.23408, in the BB9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brierfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brierfield East & Clover Hill, Pendle, BB9 5SG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704FG07048
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 27%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 73%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A682 in Burnley, 3 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200104F089401
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A682 in Pendle, 29 January 2009
At the same spotRef 200904FG09016
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the A682 in Burnley, 17 February 1997
At the same spotRef 199704F004997
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A682 in Pendle, 15 May 2011
1 m awayRef 201104FG11040
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 7 November 2011
6 m awayRef 201104FG11098
Slight
Bus crash on the A56 in Pendle, 8 January 1982
10 m awayRef 1982040GC0030
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Renault Megane)
- 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 200704FG07048 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.