Serious unclassified road crash in Rossendale BB4 on 16 July 2011 at 02:00 involving an MG ZS
An MG ZS crashed on an unclassified road in Rossendale at 02:00 on Saturday 16 July 2011. The 32-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jul 2011
- Saturday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- MG ZS
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68656, longitude -2.30114, in the BB4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104FL11065
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 February 2010.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 20 February 2010
26 m awayRef 201004FL10021
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 2 June 2005
28 m awayRef 200504FL05009
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 19 August 1988
47 m awayRef 1988040EC2183
Serious
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 7 October 1980
56 m awayRef 1980040HE1004
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 30 May 1992
57 m awayRef 1992040EC1248
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 30 May 1992
77 m awayRef 1992040EC1246
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: MG ZS
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG ZS)
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 201104FL11065 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.