Serious unclassified road crash in Burnley BB11 on 21 January 2023 at 12:30 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and a Citroen C3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Burnley at 12:30 on Saturday 21 January 2023. The 33-year-old female driver of the Citroen C3 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jan 2023
- Saturday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Citroen C3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78925, longitude -2.24001, in the BB11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Burnley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Daneshouse with Stoneyholme, Burnley, BB11 1NQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Burnley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023041269356
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Dry
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2008.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 16 July 2008
7 m awayRef 200804FA08105
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 22 October 2004
7 m awayRef 200404F075604
Slight
Car crash on the A671 in Burnley, 23 October 1982
7 m awayRef 1982040FA0848
Slight
Mercedes crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 10 April 1997
16 m awayRef 199704F011897
Slight
Datsun Cherry crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 27 January 1994
16 m awayRef 199404F005494
Serious
Bus crash on the A671 in Burnley, 30 March 1982
16 m awayRef 1982040FA0230
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C3)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2023041269356 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 2023.