Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA3 on 22 March 2003 at 11:35 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 11:35 on Saturday 22 March 2003. The 65-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 2003
- Saturday, 11:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.06267, longitude -2.84564, in the LA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Morecambe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Westgate, Lancaster, LA3 3PL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200304B017103
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 March 2003.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 24 March 2003
10 m awayRef 200304B017303
Slight
Honda CBF125M crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 4 November 2013
12 m awayRef 201304BB13144
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 3 February 1998
14 m awayRef 199804B008998
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 2 October 2024
18 m awayRef 2024041503878
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 14 April 1980
20 m awayRef 1980040BB0476
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 13 October 2025
22 m awayRef 2025041653714
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,799 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 65, motorcyclist (over 125cc), 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 200304B017103 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 2003.