A666 crash in Blackburn with Darwen on 4 January 2011 at 03:15 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna crashed on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen at 03:15 on Tuesday 4 January 2011. The 37-year-old male driver and a 36-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jan 2011
- Tuesday, 03:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.65051, longitude -2.45656, 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
- 201104EB11001
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 29%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 71%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 2005.
Slight
Fiat Seicento crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 28 October 2005
At the same spotRef 200504EB05063
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 8 June 2007
At the same spotRef 200704EN07065
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 17 February 2005
10 m awayRef 200504E012705
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 24 March 1995
10 m awayRef 199504E014995
Slight
Car crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 2 June 1989
10 m awayRef 1989040EE1524
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 7 December 2003
10 m awayRef 200304E089603
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Laguna)
- 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 201104EB11001 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.