Serious B5273 crash in Lancaster on 1 December 2004 at 08:00 involving a Rover 45
A Rover 45 and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B5273 in Lancaster at 08:00 on Wednesday 1 December 2004. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Dec 2004
- Wednesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 45 and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.05519, longitude -2.849, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200404B075704
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5273
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
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 11 September 1992.
Slight
MZ crash on the B5273 in Lancaster, 11 September 1992
At the same spotRef 1992040BB1308
Slight
Fiat Tempra crash on the B5273 in Lancaster, 19 September 1991
At the same spotRef 1991040BB1274
Slight
Van crash on the B5273 in Lancaster, 25 August 1985
At the same spotRef 1985040BG1208
Slight
Lorry crash on the B5273 in Lancaster, 9 October 1989
At the same spotRef 1989040BB1568
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B5273 in Lancaster, 19 November 2002
At the same spotRef 200204B083502
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B5273 in Lancaster, 7 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199704B017997
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 45
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 916 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (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 200404B075704 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.