A6119 crash in Blackburn with Darwen on 24 February 2008 at 18:30 involving a Toyota
A car and a Toyota were involved in a crash on the A6119 in Blackburn with Darwen at 18:30 on Sunday 24 February 2008. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Feb 2008
- Sunday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Toyota
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76702, longitude -2.49788, in the BB1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackburn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Billinge & Beardwood, Blackburn with Darwen, BB2 7GX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200804EA08066
- Council area
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6119
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 36%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 64%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 July 2008.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A6119 in Blackburn with Darwen, 19 July 2008
At the same spotRef 200804EA08270
Slight
Porsche Cayenne crash on the A6119 in Blackburn with Darwen, 8 October 2015
At the same spotRef 201504ED15457
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6119 in Blackburn with Darwen, 29 January 2011
At the same spotRef 201104EA11016
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A6119 in Blackburn with Darwen, 2 May 2012
At the same spotRef 201204EA12134
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A6119 in Blackburn with Darwen, 6 August 2025
7 m awayRef 2025041625659
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A6119 in Blackburn with Darwen, 24 August 2021
8 m awayRef 2021041087281
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota)
- 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 200804EA08066 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackburn with Darwen road accident statistics for 2008.