Unclassified road crash in Rossendale BB4 on 29 October 2013 at 17:12 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Rossendale at 17:12 on Tuesday 29 October 2013. A 40-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 29 Oct 2013
- Tuesday, 17:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70087, longitude -2.28325, 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
- 201304FL13085
- 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
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 May 2025.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 21 May 2025
5 m awayRef 2025041593109
Slight
Car crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 21 January 1980
9 m awayRef 1980040HE0087
Slight
Car crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 9 June 1979
9 m awayRef 1979040HE0588
Serious
Volvo V40 crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 22 August 2001
15 m awayRef 200104F062301
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 31 May 1990
15 m awayRef 1990040EC1608
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 21 February 2001
15 m awayRef 200104F013701
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201304FL13085 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 2013.