Serious A6 crash in Lancaster on 31 March 2004 at 15:12 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A motorcycle and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A6 in Lancaster at 15:12 on Wednesday 31 March 2004. The 70-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Mar 2004
- Wednesday, 15:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.12663, longitude -2.77104, in the LA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Carnforth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Carnforth & Millhead, Lancaster, LA5 9LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200404B019904
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 1989.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 30 May 1989
At the same spotRef 1989040BH0762
Serious
Citroen AX crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 31 August 1994
At the same spotRef 199404B119494
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 28 November 1991
At the same spotRef 1991040BH1664
Serious
Toyota Space Cruiser crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 16 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199704B019997
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 28 October 2020
11 m awayRef 2020040994073
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 17 April 1995
14 m awayRef 199504B014695
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 70, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200404B019904 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 2004.