A681 crash in Rossendale on 7 September 2009 at 08:25 involving a Vauxhall Combo
A Vauxhall Combo and a Fiat Multipla were involved in a crash on the A681 in Rossendale at 08:25 on Monday 7 September 2009. The 48-year-old female driver of the Fiat Multipla, a 20-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Combo and a 26-year-old female passenger in the Fiat Multipla were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 2009
- Monday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Combo and Fiat Multipla
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69556, longitude -2.31302, 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 6LJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200904FL09098
- 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
- 681
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 5 October 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 5 October 1982
At the same spotRef 1982040HE0989
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 23 April 2008
At the same spotRef 200804FL08036
Slight
Honda XL125V crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 22 September 2011
8 m awayRef 201104FL11090
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 23 September 2002
10 m awayRef 200204F068902
Serious
Car crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 19 September 1982
10 m awayRef 1982040HE0930
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 5 January 1994
10 m awayRef 199404P001094
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Multipla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Multipla)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Combo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Multipla)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200904FL09098 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 2009.