A680 crash in Rossendale on 24 June 2016 at 13:22 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Suzuki Ignis were involved in a crash on the A680 in Rossendale at 13:22 on Friday 24 June 2016. The 34-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Ignis and a 15-year-old male passenger in the Suzuki Ignis were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jun 2016
- Friday, 13:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Suzuki Ignis
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.7258, longitude -2.33219, in the BB5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rising Bridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Haslingden, Rossendale, BB4 5BH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604EF16179
- 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
- 680
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 February 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 3 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199804F008998
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 26 April 1995
At the same spotRef 199504P005295
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 7 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200004F057300
Fatal
Citroen AX crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 1 October 1998
At the same spotRef 199804F067298
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 25 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199804F062398
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 8 October 1992
At the same spotRef 1992040EH2771
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Ignis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Ignis)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Suzuki Ignis)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201604EF16179 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.