Serious B6252 crash in Pendle on 11 April 1991 at 14:35 involving a Kawasaki Z550 motorcycle
A Kawasaki Z550 motorcycle and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the B6252 in Pendle at 14:35 on Thursday 11 April 1991. The 26-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki Z550 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Apr 1991
- Thursday, 14:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki Z550 and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.93044, longitude -2.16475, in the BB18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Pendle
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1991040FF0641
- Council area
- Pendle
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6252
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2000.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B6252 in Pendle, 28 November 2000
22 m awayRef 200004F070400
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6252 in Pendle, 3 May 1990
51 m awayRef 1990040FF0826
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the B6252 in Pendle, 13 June 1991
51 m awayRef 1991040FF1051
Slight
Volvo 343 crash on the B6252 in Pendle, 5 November 1992
51 m awayRef 1992040FF2139
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on the B6252 in Pendle, 27 March 2000
71 m awayRef 200004F019400
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B6252 in Pendle, 10 November 2019
85 m awayRef 2019040897915
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki Z550
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 553 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki Z550)
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 1991040FF0641 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Pendle road accident statistics for 1991.