A671 crash in Rossendale on 11 October 2011 at 17:20 involving a Mercedes Sprinter
A car and a Mercedes Sprinter were involved in a crash on the A671 in Rossendale at 17:20 on Tuesday 11 October 2011. The 18-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Oct 2011
- Tuesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64188, longitude -2.17944, in the OL12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Healey, Rochdale, OL12 6EB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104FJ11054
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 February 2019.
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 16 February 2019
6 m awayRef 2019040834100
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 4 June 2008
6 m awayRef 200804FJ08032
Slight
Car crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 20 June 1982
6 m awayRef 1982040HL0614
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 15 August 2007
9 m awayRef 200704FJ07045
Slight
Bus crash on the A671 in Hyndburn, 15 March 1981
9 m awayRef 1981040HL0335
Serious
Suzuki GSF 650 crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 2 November 2006
9 m awayRef 200604FJ06067
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201104FJ11054 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.