Serious A681 crash in Rossendale on 31 December 2015 at 19:09 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 hit a pedestrian on the A681 in Rossendale at 19:09 on Thursday 31 December 2015. A 60-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 19:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6928, longitude -2.22, in the OL13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bacup. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitewell & Stacksteads, Rossendale, OL13 0RW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504EF15403
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 681
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 681
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 2018.
Slight
Skoda Superb crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 29 March 2018
At the same spotRef 201804EF18091
Slight
Toyota IQ crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 10 April 2013
8 m awayRef 201304FJ13015
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 14 July 2007
10 m awayRef 200704FJ07037
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 10 November 2009
10 m awayRef 200904FJ09045
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 27 July 2014
11 m awayRef 201404FJ14034
Slight
Car crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 16 February 1984
20 m awayRef 1984040HG0195
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- 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 201504EF15403 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.