B6535 crash in Hyndburn on 18 April 2011 at 00:30 involving an MG ZR
An MG ZR and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the B6535 in Hyndburn at 00:30 on Monday 18 April 2011. The 62-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 206 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Apr 2011
- Monday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- MG ZR and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78477, longitude -2.40883, in the BB6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Harwood. It is one of the crashes that make up the Netherton, Hyndburn, BB6 7HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hyndburn
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104EM11010
- 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
- 6535
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, street lights lit
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Hyndburn, 14 February 2013
3 m awayRef 201304EL13024
Fatal
Car crash on the B6535 in Hyndburn, 21 December 1987
3 m awayRef 1987040EF3191
Serious
Van crash on the B6535 in Hyndburn, 13 December 1993
3 m awayRef 199304E185393
Slight
Bus crash on the B6535 in Hyndburn, 19 November 1980
3 m awayRef 1980040HJ1308
Slight
Car crash on the B6535 in Hyndburn, 1 April 1988
3 m awayRef 1988040EF0889
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the B6535 in Hyndburn, 18 December 1995
3 m awayRef 199504J031995
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MG ZR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
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 201104EM11010 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 2011.