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B6478 crash in Ribble Valley on 18 August 1996 at 22:00 involving a Yamaha motorcycle

A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the B6478 in Ribble Valley at 22:00 on Sunday 18 August 1996. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
18 Aug 1996
Sunday, 22:00
Vehicles
1
Yamaha
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.88288, longitude -2.40097, in the BB7 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199604K028796
Council area
Ribble Valley
Police force
Lancashire
Highway authority
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
6478
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 1982.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Yamaha

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years
    Engine capacity
    123 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)

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 199604K028796 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ribble Valley road accident statistics for 1996.