A671 crash in Rossendale on 15 February 2007 at 00:30 involving a BMW 3 Series
Four vehicles, including a BMW 3 Series and a Renault Clio, were involved in a crash on the A671 in Rossendale at 00:30 on Thursday 15 February 2007. A 41-year-old male passenger in the BMW 3 Series and a 25-year-old female passenger in the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Feb 2007
- Thursday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 4
- BMW 3 Series and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67355, longitude -2.17147, in the OL12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitworth, Rossendale, OL12 8LS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704FJ07009
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 671
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2012.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 19 October 2012
3 m awayRef 201204FJ12031
Fatal
Fiat Fiorino crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 11 July 2023
9 m awayRef 2023041328536
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 9 January 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040HL0026
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 19 January 2006
22 m awayRef 200604FJ06004
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 29 December 2009
36 m awayRef 200904FJ09051
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 24 June 2024
41 m awayRef 2024041459533
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Agila
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 4: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 200704FJ07009 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rossendale road accident statistics for 2007.