A671 crash in Rossendale on 17 November 2011 at 12:55 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A671 in Rossendale at 12:55 on Thursday 17 November 2011. The 45-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2011
- Thursday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68178, longitude -2.16507, in the OL12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitworth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104FJ11053
- 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
- 671
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2025.
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 19 June 2025
5 m awayRef 2025041605230
Serious
Car crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 21 November 1980
15 m awayRef 1980040HL1241
Fatal
Peugeot 205 crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 20 June 1993
15 m awayRef 199304E123993
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 27 September 1993
15 m awayRef 199304E167693
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 19 July 1979
17 m awayRef 1979040HL0716
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 11 May 1994
34 m awayRef 199404P037294
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 45, 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 201104FJ11053 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.