Serious A6 crash in South Ribble on 24 July 1993 at 18:20 involving a Honda C50LA motorcycle
A Honda C50LA motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A6 in South Ribble at 18:20 on Saturday 24 July 1993. The 28-year-old male rider of the Honda C50LA motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jul 1993
- Saturday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda C50LA and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69562, longitude -2.63848, in the PR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bamber Bridge.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199304D138893
- Council area
- South Ribble
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 November 2022.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A6 in Chorley, 22 November 2022
5 m awayRef 2022041245528
Slight
Lorry crash on the A6 in Chorley, 19 August 1991
10 m awayRef 1991040DG2175
Slight
Jeep Renegade crash on the A6 in Chorley, 15 August 2020
17 m awayRef 2020040972742
Slight
Bus crash on the A6 in Chorley, 11 May 1992
20 m awayRef 1992040DG1718
Serious
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 3 June 1988
40 m awayRef 1988040DG1395
Slight
Ford crash on the A6 in Chorley, 24 January 1993
40 m awayRef 1993040DG0059
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda C50LA
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 957 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda C50LA)
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 199304D138893 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ribble road accident statistics for 1993.