A681 crash in Rossendale on 25 January 2016 at 15:15 involving an Audi A4 taxi
An Audi A4 taxi hit a pedestrian on the A681 in Rossendale at 15:15 on Monday 25 January 2016. A 60-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
- 25 Jan 2016
- Monday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70218, longitude -2.20098, in the OL13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bacup. It is one of the crashes that make up the Britannia & Lee Mill, Rossendale, OL13 0AX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604EF16030
- 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
- 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 28 October 2004
10 m awayRef 200404F078004
Serious
Chevrolet Spark crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 21 November 2013
10 m awayRef 201304FJ13043
Serious
Vauxhall Mokka crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 10 June 2021
10 m awayRef 2021041067136
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 7 July 2003
14 m awayRef 200304F045203
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 10 August 1996
14 m awayRef 199604P018496
Slight
Car crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 7 January 1993
14 m awayRef 1993040EG0014
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 60, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 201604EF16030 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 2016.