B6391 crash in Blackburn with Darwen on 29 August 2008 at 01:40 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the B6391 in Blackburn with Darwen at 01:40 on Friday 29 August 2008. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Aug 2008
- Friday, 01:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64828, longitude -2.42976, in the BL7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200804EB08060
- Council area
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6391
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 136 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 March 2009.
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the B6391 in Blackburn with Darwen, 28 March 2009
136 m awayRef 200904EB09019
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B6391 in Blackburn with Darwen, 28 February 2005
171 m awayRef 200504E015105
Slight
Car crash on the B6391 in Blackburn with Darwen, 23 July 1987
171 m awayRef 1987040EE1863
Slight
Car crash on the B6391 in Blackburn with Darwen, 28 February 1992
216 m awayRef 1992040EE0551
Slight
Car crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 4 November 1980
730 m awayRef 1980040EB1448
Slight
Car crash on the B6391 in Blackburn with Darwen, 17 January 2003
750 m awayRef 200304E008803
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- 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
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 200804EB08060 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.