Unclassified road crash in Rossendale BB4 on 23 November 2012 at 08:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rossendale at 08:45 on Friday 23 November 2012. A 12-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Nov 2012
- Friday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70481, longitude -2.28212, 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
- 201204FL12102
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 35 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 14 July 1979
35 m awayRef 1979040HE0686
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 16 September 2025
36 m awayRef 2025041647467
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 22 August 1993
39 m awayRef 199304E154693
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 26 July 2008
49 m awayRef 200804FL08079
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 17 July 1987
78 m awayRef 1987040EC1800
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 26 April 1995
80 m awayRef 199504P005195
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
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 201204FL12102 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.