B5321 crash in Lancaster on 29 September 2002 at 20:40 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A bicycle and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B5321 in Lancaster at 20:40 on Sunday 29 September 2002. The 17-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 2002
- Sunday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.07089, longitude -2.86506, in the LA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Morecambe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Poulton, Lancaster, LA4 5NW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204B061502
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5321
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2011.
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the B5321 in Lancaster, 24 May 2011
8 m awayRef 201104BB11060
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B5321 in Lancaster, 21 January 2017
10 m awayRef 201704WB17029
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5321 in Lancaster, 21 May 2013
16 m awayRef 201304BB13048
Slight
Van crash on the B5321 in Lancaster, 26 July 1993
20 m awayRef 199304B120893
Slight
Car crash on the B5321 in Lancaster, 11 April 1980
22 m awayRef 1980040BB0429
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B5321 in Lancaster, 26 May 1983
22 m awayRef 1983040BB0647
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,188 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 17, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200204B061502 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2002.