A56 crash in Rossendale on 2 November 2007 at 23:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the A56 in Rossendale at 23:00 on Friday 2 November 2007. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Nov 2007
- Friday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67094, longitude -2.31087, in the BL0 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenfield & Eden, Rossendale, BL0 0LS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704FL07140
- 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
- 56
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 2024.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 14 May 2024
17 m awayRef 2024041443840
Slight
Porsche Cayman crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 29 September 2019
19 m awayRef 2019040882817
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 8 August 2012
31 m awayRef 201204FL12065
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 9 August 2010
32 m awayRef 201004FL10077
Serious
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 30 May 2024
37 m awayRef 2024041450077
Slight
Van crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 28 August 1992
58 m awayRef 1992040EC2316
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 200704FL07140 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.