Serious A56 crash in Rossendale on 18 June 2019 at 23:17 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series crashed on the A56 in Rossendale at 23:17 on Tuesday 18 June 2019. The 20-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 2019
- Tuesday, 23:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69512, longitude -2.32361, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haslingden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Helmshore, Rossendale, BB4 4HW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019040850482
- 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
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 43 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 1990.
Slight
Iveco crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 8 January 1990
43 m awayRef 1990040EH0109
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 24 October 2001
53 m awayRef 200104F081301
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover Sport crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 8 March 2009
55 m awayRef 200904FL09022
Serious
Car crash on the A622 in Rossendale, 23 April 1984
71 m awayRef 1984040HF0411
Slight
Car crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 23 May 2006
75 m awayRef 200604FL06060
Slight
Mercedes Cla Class crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 2 August 2025
76 m awayRef 2025041623992
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 1 Series)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019040850482 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 2019.