Unclassified road crash in Burnley BB10 on 6 December 2011 at 18:30 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Burnley at 18:30 on Tuesday 6 December 2011. The 25-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2011
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78696, longitude -2.21032, in the BB10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cliviger with Worsthorne, Burnley, BB10 4HN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Burnley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104FA11146
- Council area
- Burnley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 2008.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 19 March 2008
11 m awayRef 200804FA08048
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 21 December 2002
12 m awayRef 200204F099002
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 5 October 1987
18 m awayRef 1987040FA1494
Serious
Leyland crash on a C road in Burnley, 14 November 1998
25 m awayRef 199804F078598
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 27 July 1987
26 m awayRef 1987040FA1093
Slight
Ford Maverick crash on a C road in Burnley, 29 December 1997
26 m awayRef 199704F085597
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 25, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201104FA11146 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Burnley road accident statistics for 2011.