A680 crash in Hyndburn on 22 January 2016 at 15:55 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series, a Vauxhall Astra and a Toyota Avensis taxi were involved in a crash on the A680 in Hyndburn at 15:55 on Friday 22 January 2016. A 20-year-old male passenger in the Toyota Avensis taxi and a 23-year-old male passenger in the Toyota Avensis taxi were 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
- 22 Jan 2016
- Friday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 3
- BMW 5 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77625, longitude -2.38342, in the BB5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Clayton-le-Moors. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clayton-le-Moors, Hyndburn, BB5 5RU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hyndburn
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604ED16055
- Council area
- Hyndburn
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 680
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 July 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the A680 in Hyndburn, 29 July 1983
10 m awayRef 1983040HJ0777
Slight
Car crash on the A680 in Hyndburn, 1 January 1983
10 m awayRef 1983040HJ0001
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Hyndburn, 26 September 2011
10 m awayRef 201104EL11100
Slight
Car crash on the A680 in Hyndburn, 7 February 1987
10 m awayRef 1987040EF0318
Slight
Hyundai Getz crash on the A680 in Hyndburn, 3 September 2012
11 m awayRef 201204EL12125
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A680 in Hyndburn, 28 March 2013
14 m awayRef 201304EL13048
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Toyota Avensis
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Toyota Avensis)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Toyota Avensis)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201604ED16055 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hyndburn road accident statistics for 2016.