A682 crash in Rossendale on 1 August 2012 at 20:27 involving a Peugeot 206
A Peugeot 206 and a Skoda Fabia were involved in a crash on the A682 in Rossendale at 20:27 on Wednesday 1 August 2012. The 27-year-old female driver of the Skoda Fabia was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2012
- Wednesday, 20:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 206 and Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7019, longitude -2.28647, 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
- 201204FL12064
- 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
- 682
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 January 2017.
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A682 in Rossendale, 4 January 2017
4 m awayRef 201704EF17029
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A682 in Rossendale, 19 January 2006
4 m awayRef 200604FL06008
Slight
Bus crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 7 December 1979
4 m awayRef 1979040HE1277
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 15 November 2013
5 m awayRef 201304FL13086
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 7 March 1979
6 m awayRef 1979040HE0276
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 29 January 2018
6 m awayRef 201804EF18020
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Skoda Fabia)
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 201204FL12064 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 2012.