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Serious unclassified road crash in Pendle BB18 on 18 August 1998 at 19:00 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle

A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Pendle at 19:00 on Tuesday 18 August 1998. A 19-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 41-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
18 Aug 1998
Tuesday, 19:00
Vehicles
1
Kawasaki
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.90582, longitude -2.16481, 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
199804F055198
Council area
Pendle
Police force
Lancashire
Highway authority
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Other 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
Wet or damp
Carriageway hazards
Other object in carriageway

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 September 1988.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    North
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    41 years
    Engine capacity
    900 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    28 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

  • Casualty 2: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 41, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)

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 199804F055198 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 1998.