Serious A646 crash in Burnley on 25 November 2013 at 10:15 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a DAF Trucks FA 45LF lorry were involved in a crash on the A646 in Burnley at 10:15 on Monday 25 November 2013. A 67-year-old female passenger in the BMW 5 Series was seriously injured and the 74-year-old male driver of the BMW 5 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Nov 2013
- Monday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and DAF Trucks FA 45LF
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75811, longitude -2.19756, in the BB10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Burnley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201304FA13121
- Council area
- Burnley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 646
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 1992.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A646 in Burnley, 25 October 1992
9 m awayRef 1992040FA2423
Slight
Car crash on the A646 in Burnley, 18 March 1989
43 m awayRef 1989040FA0473
Slight
Car crash on the A646 in Burnley, 24 February 1984
43 m awayRef 1984040FA0152
Serious
Car crash on the A646 in Burnley, 27 February 1984
43 m awayRef 1984040FA0150
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A646 in Burnley, 19 February 2006
94 m awayRef 200604FA06034
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A646 in Burnley, 12 October 2025
99 m awayRef 2025041653683
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: DAF Trucks FA 45LF
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 3,920 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201304FA13121 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Burnley road accident statistics for 2013.