Unclassified road crash in Burnley BB11 on 18 February 2008 at 12:53 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Burnley at 12:53 on Monday 18 February 2008. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 2008
- Monday, 12:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78704, longitude -2.24555, in the BB11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Daneshouse with Stoneyholme, Burnley, BB11 1NQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Burnley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200804FA08028
- Council area
- Burnley
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 July 2017.
Serious
Kia Picanto crash on the B6240 in Burnley, 16 July 2017
10 m awayRef 201704EF17148
Slight
Car crash on the B6434 in Burnley, 19 October 1984
14 m awayRef 1984040FA0888
Slight
Taxi crash on the B6434 in Burnley, 15 May 2004
20 m awayRef 200404F041104
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6240 in Burnley, 5 February 2011
22 m awayRef 201104FA11017
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6434 in Burnley, 9 December 1981
22 m awayRef 1981040FA1098
Slight
Car crash on the B6434 in Burnley, 24 May 1979
22 m awayRef 1979040FA0385
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 5, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
- 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 200804FA08028 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Burnley road accident statistics for 2008.