A666 crash in Blackburn with Darwen on 4 December 2011 at 23:05 involving a Toyota Auris
A Toyota Auris crashed on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen at 23:05 on Sunday 4 December 2011. The 23-year-old male driver, a 22-year-old male passenger and a 22-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2011
- Sunday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Auris
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65619, longitude -2.45254, in the BB3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Blackburn with Darwen
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104EA11300
- Council area
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 666
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 45%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 55%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 2007.
Slight
Volkswagen Corrado crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 30 June 2007
At the same spotRef 200704EB07061
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 12 July 1981
At the same spotRef 1981040EB0750
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B6391 in Blackburn with Darwen, 26 July 2015
10 m awayRef 201504ED15322
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 26 February 2007
10 m awayRef 200704EB07017
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 9 May 1984
10 m awayRef 1984040EB0584
Fatal
Car crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 19 August 1981
10 m awayRef 1981040EB0907
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Auris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Auris)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Auris)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Auris)
- 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 201104EA11300 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackburn with Darwen road accident statistics for 2011.