A680 crash in Rossendale on 10 April 2011 at 10:30 involving a Volkswagen Caddy
A Volkswagen Caddy and a Saab 9-3 were involved in a crash on the A680 in Rossendale at 10:30 on Sunday 10 April 2011. A 15-year-old female passenger in the Saab 9-3, a 16-year-old female passenger in the Saab 9-3 and a 46-year-old female passenger in the Saab 9-3 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Apr 2011
- Sunday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Caddy and Saab 9-3
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69911, longitude -2.31988, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haslingden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenfield & Eden, Rossendale, BB4 5EB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104FL11040
- 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
- 680
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 August 2006.
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A682 in Rossendale, 29 August 2006
13 m awayRef 200604FL06100
Slight
Car crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 18 June 1980
17 m awayRef 1980040HF0632
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 31 October 1985
21 m awayRef 1985040HF1136
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 9 August 1991
21 m awayRef 1991040EH2065
Slight
Leyland crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 8 October 1991
31 m awayRef 1991040EH2750
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 1 December 2008
33 m awayRef 200804FL08135
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Caddy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Saab 9-3
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Saab 9-3)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Saab 9-3)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Saab 9-3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201104FL11040 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.