Serious A681 crash in Rossendale on 24 June 2010 at 09:20 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on the A681 in Rossendale at 09:20 on Thursday 24 June 2010. A 41-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jun 2010
- Thursday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69388, longitude -2.26136, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rawtenstall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hareholme & Waterfoot, Rossendale, BB4 9AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201004FL10062
- 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
- Urban
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 2016.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 24 February 2016
10 m awayRef 201604EF16081
Slight
Car crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 5 January 1987
10 m awayRef 1987040EK0008
Fatal
MG Metro crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 28 November 1998
10 m awayRef 199804F082598
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 12 June 2009
14 m awayRef 200904FL09060
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 30 August 2024
17 m awayRef 2024041485580
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 30 December 2020
18 m awayRef 2020041010818
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,883 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 41, hit by vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201004FL10062 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 2010.