B6214 crash in Rossendale on 8 October 2011 at 19:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B6214 in Rossendale at 19:10 on Saturday 8 October 2011. The 26-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 2011
- Saturday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.68928, longitude -2.32911, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haslingden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Helmshore, Rossendale, BB4 4HW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104FL11101
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6214
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the B6214 in Rossendale, 23 October 1987
7 m awayRef 1987040EH2718
Serious
Scooter crash on the B6214 in Rossendale, 6 September 1980
15 m awayRef 1980040HF0884
Serious
Car crash on the B6214 in Rossendale, 25 January 1990
16 m awayRef 1990040EH0295
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 19 April 1985
24 m awayRef 1985040HF0417
Slight
Hyundai i20 crash on the B6214 in Rossendale, 3 February 2011
34 m awayRef 201104FL11017
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 26 May 2005
34 m awayRef 200504FL05015
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 201104FL11101 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.