B5493 crash in North West Leicestershire on 9 October 1993 at 13:20 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on the B5493 in North West Leicestershire at 13:20 on Saturday 9 October 1993. A 20-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 1993
- Saturday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68891, longitude -1.55036, in the DE12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North West Leicestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1993339307238
- Council area
- North West Leicestershire
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5493
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2016.
Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on the B5493 in North West Leicestershire, 15 October 2016
19 m awayRef 2016331601854
Slight
Renault crash on the B5493 in North West Leicestershire, 12 June 1997
20 m awayRef 1997339704219
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B5493 in North West Leicestershire, 26 August 2014
25 m awayRef 2014331401539
Serious
Kawasaki ZX750 crash on the B5493 in North West Leicestershire, 1 August 2004
30 m awayRef 2004330405774
Slight
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the B5493 in North West Leicestershire, 20 September 1998
32 m awayRef 1998339807043
Slight
Car crash on the B5493 in North West Leicestershire, 20 March 1988
32 m awayRef 19883388C0071
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 247 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 1993339307238 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North West Leicestershire road accident statistics for 1993.