A680 crash in Rossendale on 27 November 2007 at 15:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A680 in Rossendale at 15:30 on Tuesday 27 November 2007. A 14-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 2007
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70389, longitude -2.32459, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haslingden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenfield & Eden, Rossendale, BB4 5EB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704FL07150
- 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
- 680
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 2016.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 9 November 2016
At the same spotRef 201604EF16290
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 10 September 2015
At the same spotRef 201504EF15277
Slight
Van crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 26 November 1979
At the same spotRef 1979040HF1210
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 25 October 1984
At the same spotRef 1984040HF1118
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6232 in Rossendale, 30 July 2021
3 m awayRef 2021041072182
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the B6232 in Rossendale, 12 September 2025
5 m awayRef 2025041643711
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 14, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing in zig-zag approach lines
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200704FL07150 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.