Serious B6238 crash in Rossendale on 15 November 2007 at 20:30 involving a Toyota MR2
A Toyota MR2 crashed on the B6238 in Rossendale at 20:30 on Thursday 15 November 2007. The 25-year-old male driver and a 23-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Nov 2007
- Thursday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota MR2
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69661, longitude -2.24896, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rawtenstall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hareholme & Waterfoot, Rossendale, BB4 9AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704FJ07066
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6238
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 1990.
Slight
Car crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 14 February 1990
14 m awayRef 1990040EK0514
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on a C road in Rossendale, 31 March 1994
32 m awayRef 199404P025394
Slight
Car crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 9 February 1982
36 m awayRef 1982040HM0140
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 7 October 1979
42 m awayRef 1979040HM1027
Serious
New Holland crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 2 March 2005
42 m awayRef 200504F017005
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 3 October 2003
42 m awayRef 200304F067903
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota MR2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota MR2)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota MR2)
- 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 200704FJ07066 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.