Serious A6003 crash in North Northamptonshire on 25 October 2003 at 16:00 involving a Harley-Davidson motorcycle
A Harley-Davidson motorcycle crashed on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire at 16:00 on Saturday 25 October 2003. The 53-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Oct 2003
- Saturday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Harley-Davidson
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47731, longitude -0.73799, in the NN18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oakley, North Northamptonshire, NN18 9ED area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Corby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200334NC04285
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6003
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 December 2007.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 10 December 2007
14 m awayRef 200734NC61657
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 30 April 2017
49 m awayRef 201734NC02867
Slight
Car crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 1 August 1986
85 m awayRef 198634AC00555
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 18 August 2022
90 m awayRef 202234NNC5332
Serious
Volvo C30 crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 17 January 2022
92 m awayRef 2022340NNC162
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 29 July 2017
93 m awayRef 201734NC06617
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Harley-Davidson
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,450 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Harley-Davidson)
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 200334NC04285 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 2003.