Unclassified road crash in Pendle BB9 on 23 December 2014 at 17:26 involving a Subaru Forester
A Subaru Forester crashed on an unclassified road in Pendle at 17:26 on Tuesday 23 December 2014. The 85-year-old male driver 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
- 23 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 17:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Subaru Forester
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.84824, longitude -2.21969, in the BB9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barrowford.
Map of where the crash happened in Pendle
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404EG14060
- Council area
- Pendle
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 84 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 11 May 1984
84 m awayRef 1984040GC0362
Slight
Renault 19 crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 13 April 1996
85 m awayRef 199604K011796
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 16 December 1992
85 m awayRef 1992040FB2311
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 1 July 2016
90 m awayRef 201604EG16150
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 7 June 1984
95 m awayRef 1984040GC0444
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 20 November 1981
106 m awayRef 1981040GC0986
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Forester
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 85 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,457 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 85, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Forester)
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 201404EG14060 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pendle road accident statistics for 2014.