B6238 crash in Rossendale on 26 February 2015 at 09:30 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on the B6238 in Rossendale at 09:30 on Thursday 26 February 2015. The 29-year-old female driver of the Ford KA was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Feb 2015
- Thursday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70281, longitude -2.25096, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rawtenstall.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504EF15062
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6238
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 1998.
Slight
Renault 25 crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 12 March 1998
10 m awayRef 199804F016898
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 13 December 2014
28 m awayRef 201404EF14089
Serious
Car crash on the B6238 in Rossendale, 14 December 1984
32 m awayRef 1984040HM1379
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 20 December 2008
61 m awayRef 200804FJ08059
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 21 December 1979
71 m awayRef 1979040HM1370
Slight
Car crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 6 September 1984
76 m awayRef 1984040HE0923
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford KA)
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 201504EF15062 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 2015.