B6234 crash in Hyndburn on 3 October 2010 at 09:55 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn at 09:55 on Sunday 3 October 2010. The 32-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 2010
- Sunday, 09:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.74238, longitude -2.40661, in the BB5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oswaldtwistle. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Andrew's, Hyndburn, BB5 3LN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201004EL10115
- Council area
- Hyndburn
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6234
- 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
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 2010.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hyndburn, 12 March 2010
At the same spotRef 201004EL10032
Slight
MG ZR crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 28 October 2012
5 m awayRef 201204EL12165
Serious
Volkswagen UP crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 19 November 2025
8 m awayRef 2025041670817
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 19 July 1985
10 m awayRef 1985040HH0752
Slight
Car crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 8 October 1985
10 m awayRef 1985040HH1101
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 5 November 2005
10 m awayRef 200504EL05085
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
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 201004EL10115 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hyndburn road accident statistics for 2010.