Serious A681 crash in Rossendale on 21 September 1997 at 05:50 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the A681 in Rossendale at 05:50 on Sunday 21 September 1997. The 31-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Sep 1997
- Sunday, 05:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69556, longitude -2.31225, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haslingden.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199704F056697
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 681
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 October 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 31 October 2006
14 m awayRef 200604FL06136
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 29 May 1991
14 m awayRef 1991040EC1334
Slight
Volkswagen Taigo crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 24 August 2023
17 m awayRef 2023041345235
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 14 January 1984
20 m awayRef 1984040HE0058
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 16 October 2009
20 m awayRef 200904FL09114
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A681 in Rossendale, 8 January 2014
30 m awayRef 201404FL14005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 31, 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 199704F056697 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rossendale road accident statistics for 1997.