M65 crash in Burnley on 10 December 2017 at 23:52 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the M65 in Burnley at 23:52 on Sunday 10 December 2017. The 25-year-old male driver and a 25-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Dec 2017
- Sunday, 23:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79395, longitude -2.25575, in the BB12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Daneshouse with Stoneyholme, Burnley, BB12 0BB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Burnley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201704EF17271
- Council area
- Burnley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 65
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 26%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 74%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 2018.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the M65 in Burnley, 5 December 2018
32 m awayRef 201804EF18303
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the M65 in Burnley, 6 February 2025
42 m awayRef 2025041551335
Slight
Car crash on the M65 in Burnley, 3 November 1988
67 m awayRef 1988040FA1872
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 9 June 2019
94 m awayRef 2019040853480
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 4 June 1995
103 m awayRef 199504F016595
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the M65 in Burnley, 13 February 2011
103 m awayRef 201104FB11007
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 201704EF17271 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Burnley road accident statistics for 2017.