Unclassified road crash in Burnley BB12 on 24 April 2003 at 08:25 involving a Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle
A Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Burnley at 08:25 on Thursday 24 April 2003. The 16-year-old male rider of the Peugeot Speedfight motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Apr 2003
- Thursday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Speedfight and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79652, longitude -2.30557, in the BB12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Padiham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Gawthorpe, Burnley, BB12 8QR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Burnley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200304F026703
- Council area
- Burnley
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 July 1983.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 24 July 1983
22 m awayRef 1983040FB0590
Serious
Vespa (Douglas) crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 27 December 1992
36 m awayRef 1992040FH2394
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 26 February 1988
42 m awayRef 1988040FH0337
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 12 May 1996
45 m awayRef 199604F016496
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 2 May 1986
45 m awayRef 1986040FH0838
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Burnley, 24 August 2025
46 m awayRef 2025041649711
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Speedfight
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Peugeot Speedfight)
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 200304F026703 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Burnley road accident statistics for 2003.