Unclassified road crash in Burnley BB11 on 13 November 2019 at 17:01 involving a Mercedes Sprinter van
A Mercedes Sprinter van and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Burnley at 17:01 on Wednesday 13 November 2019. The 54-year-old male driver of the Mercedes Sprinter van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Nov 2019
- Wednesday, 17:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes Sprinter and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78152, longitude -2.26501, in the BB11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coal Clough with Deerplay, Burnley, BB11 4RG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Burnley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019040900008
- Council area
- Burnley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 1995.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Burnley, 16 January 1995
15 m awayRef 199504F001195
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Burnley, 1 August 1995
15 m awayRef 199504F021795
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 1 May 1986
15 m awayRef 1986040FA0926
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 4 January 1980
20 m awayRef 1980040FA0015
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 16 August 2006
20 m awayRef 200604FB06064
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 9 March 2025
20 m awayRef 2025041562900
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 54, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes Sprinter)
- 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 2019040900008 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 2019.