A671 crash in Rossendale on 4 December 2016 at 00:53 involving a Skoda Octavia taxi
A Skoda Octavia taxi hit a pedestrian on the A671 in Rossendale at 00:53 on Sunday 4 December 2016. A 47-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2016
- Sunday, 00:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69931, longitude -2.19854, 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
- 201604EF16319
- 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
- 671
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 2023.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 18 February 2023
9 m awayRef 2023041277948
Slight
Suzuki SJ crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 18 June 1998
22 m awayRef 199804F040998
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 28 May 1999
61 m awayRef 199904F032399
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 17 June 2003
61 m awayRef 200304F042003
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 8 November 1997
63 m awayRef 199704F069197
Serious
Optare Versa crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 22 July 2025
69 m awayRef 2025041620050
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 47, hit by vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 201604EF16319 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.