A56 crash in Rossendale on 8 December 2017 at 18:00 involving a DAF Trucks lorry
A DAF Trucks lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the A56 in Rossendale at 18:00 on Friday 8 December 2017. A 28-year-old male passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2017
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- DAF Trucks and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201704EF17292
- 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
- 56
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Oil or diesel
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201704EF17292 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 2017.