A666 crash in Blackburn with Darwen on 19 November 2002 at 09:00 involving a Gilera Dna 50 motorcycle
A Gilera Dna 50 motorcycle crashed on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen at 09:00 on Tuesday 19 November 2002. The 16-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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2002
- Tuesday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Gilera Dna 50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.71917, longitude -2.48398, in the BB2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackburn. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blackburn South & Lower Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen, BB2 4LF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204E094802
- Council area
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 666
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 2004.
Slight
Fiat Seicento crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 2 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200404E070504
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 8 April 2000
At the same spotRef 200004E025600
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 25 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200804EA08374
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 24 October 1997
22 m awayRef 199704E091897
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 30 March 2005
32 m awayRef 200504E023105
Slight
Car crash on the A666 in Blackburn with Darwen, 15 September 1992
32 m awayRef 1992040EA2497
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Gilera Dna 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Gilera Dna 50)
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 200204E094802 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackburn with Darwen road accident statistics for 2002.