Unclassified road crash in Rossendale BB4 on 9 July 2011 at 19:29 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rossendale at 19:29 on Saturday 9 July 2011. A 12-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jul 2011
- Saturday, 19:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70336, longitude -2.2847, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rawtenstall. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longholme, Rossendale, BB4 8SQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104FL11064
- Council area
- Rossendale
- 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
- Other 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 June 2001.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 18 June 2001
17 m awayRef 200104F044201
Slight
Mercedes ML Class crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 24 September 2001
30 m awayRef 200104F071301
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 24 September 1993
33 m awayRef 199304E163893
Slight
Van crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 22 November 1984
39 m awayRef 1984040HE1248
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 23 February 1994
40 m awayRef 199404P014694
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 27 April 1996
42 m awayRef 199604P006596
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201104FL11064 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.