B6254 crash in Lancaster on 2 December 1984 at 00:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6254 in Lancaster at 00:05 on Sunday 2 December 1984. The 32-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 1984
- Sunday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.1237, longitude -2.73608, in the LA6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1984040BB1778
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6254
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 March 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B6254 in Lancaster, 26 March 1996
10 m awayRef 199604B011296
Slight
Car crash on the B6254 in Lancaster, 7 June 1988
10 m awayRef 1988040BH0715
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the B6254 in Lancaster, 5 June 2017
14 m awayRef 201704WB17155
Slight
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 8 October 2021
16 m awayRef 2021041096393
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B6254 in Lancaster, 11 June 2019
17 m awayRef 2019040856973
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the B6254 in Lancaster, 12 August 2023
21 m awayRef 2023041341443
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1984040BB1778 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 1984.