A681 crash in Rossendale on 22 August 2011 at 21:15 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra, a Mazda 6 and a car were involved in a crash on the A681 in Rossendale at 21:15 on Monday 22 August 2011. The 46-year-old male driver of the Nissan Micra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2011
- Monday, 21:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Nissan Micra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69578, longitude -2.20428, in the OL13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bacup. It is one of the crashes that make up the Britannia & Lee Mill, Rossendale, OL13 0AX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104FJ11038
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 6 December 2014
2 m awayRef 201404EF14062
Serious
Mercedes G Class crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 10 November 2019
3 m awayRef 2019040898141
Slight
Bus crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 19 March 2005
41 m awayRef 200504F021105
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 5 November 2019
52 m awayRef 2019040897967
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 7 January 2019
56 m awayRef 2019040808943
Serious
BMW M Series crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 26 March 2025
59 m awayRef 2025041577010
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda 6
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
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
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 201104FJ11038 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 2011.