B6251 crash in Pendle on 11 December 2002 at 18:30 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo and a Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6251 in Pendle at 18:30 on Wednesday 11 December 2002. The 30-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Dec 2002
- Wednesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Saxo and Suzuki GSF 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.91899, longitude -2.18923, in the BB18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnoldswick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnoldswick, Pendle, BB18 5DW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Pendle
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200204F097102
- Council area
- Pendle
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6251
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 9 August 1996.
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the B6251 in the Ribble Valley, 9 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199604K027196
Slight
Car crash on the B6251 in Pendle, 27 July 1981
At the same spotRef 1981040GL0589
Slight
Car crash on the B6251 in Pendle, 12 February 1987
At the same spotRef 1987040FF0208
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6251 in Pendle, 26 April 2025
24 m awayRef 2025041589141
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B6251 in Pendle, 26 September 2008
28 m awayRef 200804FE08063
Slight
Car crash on the B6251 in Pendle, 30 April 1982
28 m awayRef 1982040GL0316
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSF 600
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSF 600)
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 200204F097102 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 2002.