Unclassified road crash in Rossendale BB4 on 30 October 2007 at 09:20 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus crashed on an unclassified road in Rossendale at 09:20 on Tuesday 30 October 2007. A 79-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 2007
- Tuesday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68959, longitude -2.32766, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haslingden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Helmshore, Rossendale, BB4 4HW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704FL07128
- Council area
- Rossendale
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 23 April 2002
22 m awayRef 200204F028102
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 5 February 2002
40 m awayRef 200204F007802
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 27 July 1981
40 m awayRef 1981040HF0712
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 3 February 1989
41 m awayRef 1989040EH0318
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 26 October 1980
41 m awayRef 1980040HF1076
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 7 October 1981
41 m awayRef 1981040HF0952
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 79, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 200704FL07128 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.