A666 crash in Blackburn with Darwen on 8 October 2016 at 09:27 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series hit a pedestrian on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen at 09:27 on Saturday 8 October 2016. A 53-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Oct 2016
- Saturday, 09:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77482, longitude -2.47991, in the BB1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackburn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Roe Lee, Blackburn with Darwen, BB1 8FA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604ED16477
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2013.
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on an unclassified road in Blackburn with Darwen, 10 November 2013
10 m awayRef 201304EA13350
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 1 March 1995
10 m awayRef 199504E009695
Slight
Mini Countryman crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 31 August 2025
11 m awayRef 2025041635576
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 6 December 1997
14 m awayRef 199704E103897
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 14 August 1997
14 m awayRef 199704E061497
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 26 July 2019
15 m awayRef 2019040890747
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
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 201604ED16477 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 2016.