Unclassified road crash in Hyndburn BB5 on 6 December 2025 at 19:27 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Hyndburn at 19:27 on Saturday 6 December 2025. A 36-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2025
- Saturday, 19:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.75302, longitude -2.37399, in the BB5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Accrington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnfield, Hyndburn, BB5 1LN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025041679336
- Council area
- Hyndburn
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 June 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the A679 in Hyndburn, 21 June 1981
4 m awayRef 1981040HH0610
Slight
Car crash on the A679 in Hyndburn, 10 November 1979
4 m awayRef 1979040HH1140
Slight
Van crash on the A679 in Hyndburn, 10 June 1979
4 m awayRef 1979040HH0573
Slight
Car crash on the A679 in Hyndburn, 2 September 1982
4 m awayRef 1982040HH0869
Slight
Car crash on the A679 in Hyndburn, 21 March 1982
4 m awayRef 1982040HH0305
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Hyndburn, 23 November 2021
4 m awayRef 2021041113279
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 36, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025041679336 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hyndburn road accident statistics for 2025.