A666 crash in Blackburn with Darwen on 5 February 2015 at 15:50 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen at 15:50 on Thursday 5 February 2015. The 60-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Feb 2015
- Thursday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C3 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69658, longitude -2.47007, in the BB3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Darwen. It is one of the crashes that make up the Darwen East, Blackburn with Darwen, BB3 0DJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504ED15052
- Council area
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 666
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2004.
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 20 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200404E076704
Slight
Toyota Starlet crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 10 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200504EB05002
Slight
Van crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 21 February 1986
At the same spotRef 1986040EE0518
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 17 September 2009
10 m awayRef 200904EB09062
Slight
Vauxhall Adam crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 21 February 2016
14 m awayRef 201604ED16106
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 10 February 1995
14 m awayRef 199504E007395
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 60, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201504ED15052 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackburn with Darwen road accident statistics for 2015.