A56 crash in Burnley on 5 December 2014 at 07:55 involving a Ford Fiesta
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Dec 2014
- Friday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77128, longitude -2.25835, in the BB11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404EF14063
- 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
- 56
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A682 in Burnley, 3 December 2015
At the same spotRef 201504EF15364
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 18 March 1979
At the same spotRef 1979040FA0201
Slight
Car crash on the A56 in Burnley, 20 November 1981
14 m awayRef 1981040FA1030
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A682 in Burnley, 23 January 1994
14 m awayRef 199404F006994
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A682 in Burnley, 17 April 1996
14 m awayRef 199604F012796
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A682 in Burnley, 24 May 1993
30 m awayRef 199304F113893
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, 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 201404EF14063 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 2014.