Fatal B1515 crash in South Holland on 25 August 2003 at 15:00 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on the B1515 in South Holland at 15:00 on Monday 25 August 2003. The 42-year-old male rider was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 25 Aug 2003
- Monday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.80394, longitude 0.04793, in the PE12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fleet, South Holland, PE12 8LT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Holland
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200332B142003
- Council area
- South Holland
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1515
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2006.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1515 in South Holland, 5 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200632B122806
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B1515 in South Holland, 1 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200232B060502
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B1515 in South Holland, 3 August 2003
10 m awayRef 200332B129303
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A151 in South Holland, 19 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200132B187901
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1515 in South Holland, 13 December 2002
14 m awayRef 200232B190802
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B1515 in South Holland, 29 September 2009
22 m awayRef 200932B280109
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
FatalMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
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 200332B142003 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Holland road accident statistics for 2003.