A680 crash in Hyndburn on 30 December 2017 at 13:12 involving a Honda Accord
A Honda Accord and a Hyundai ix35 were involved in a crash on the A680 in Hyndburn at 13:12 on Saturday 30 December 2017. The 77-year-old male driver of the Honda Accord and the 27-year-old female driver of the Hyundai ix35 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 13:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Accord and Hyundai ix35
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79261, longitude -2.38796, in the BB6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Netherton, Hyndburn, BB6 7TR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hyndburn
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201704ED17516
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 2024.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A680 in Hyndburn, 27 June 2024
4 m awayRef 2024041461537
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6535 in Hyndburn, 11 February 2013
8 m awayRef 201304EL13023
Slight
Volvo crash on the A680 in Hyndburn, 14 November 1995
10 m awayRef 199504J027795
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A680 in Hyndburn, 9 June 2007
10 m awayRef 200704EM07030
Serious
Toyota Aygo crash on the A680 in Hyndburn, 30 December 2024
13 m awayRef 2024041535802
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A680 in Hyndburn, 19 November 2001
14 m awayRef 200104E097501
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Hyundai ix35
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,685 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Accord)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai ix35)
- 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 201704ED17516 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 2017.