A6068 crash in Pendle on 27 December 2008 at 14:05 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and an Aprilia RS 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A6068 in Pendle at 14:05 on Saturday 27 December 2008. The 19-year-old male rider of the Aprilia RS 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 50 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 2008
- Saturday, 14:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and Aprilia RS 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.85392, longitude -2.1906, in the BB8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Waterside & Horsfield, Pendle, BB8 9NL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Pendle
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200804FE08093
- Council area
- Pendle
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6068
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6068
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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 November 2009.
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A6068 in Pendle, 8 November 2009
At the same spotRef 200904FE09070
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A6068 in Pendle, 6 November 2025
3 m awayRef 2025041670361
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A6068 in Pendle, 26 July 2020
3 m awayRef 2020041028198
Serious
Audi SQ5 crash on the A6068 in Pendle, 4 December 2022
5 m awayRef 2022041249762
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A6068 in Pendle, 7 July 2025
10 m awayRef 2025041612930
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A6068 in Pendle, 22 December 2019
14 m awayRef 2019040912951
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Aprilia RS 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Aprilia RS 125)
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 200804FE08093 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pendle road accident statistics for 2008.