Serious unclassified road crash in Chorley PR6 on 13 June 2004 at 08:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Chorley at 08:25 on Sunday 13 June 2004. The 31-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jun 2004
- Sunday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67749, longitude -2.63277, in the PR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whittle-le-Woods. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chorley North East, Chorley, PR6 7DD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200404C050004
- Council area
- Chorley
- 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
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
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, 83 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2014.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 6 May 2014
83 m awayRef 201404CA14086
Serious
Mini One crash on the B6229 in Chorley, 21 April 2021
86 m awayRef 2021041038259
Slight
Yamasaki YM crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 18 April 2025
94 m awayRef 2025041579516
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 8 February 2016
133 m awayRef 201604SC16001
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the B6228 in Chorley, 6 February 2007
156 m awayRef 200704CC07017
Slight
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on the A6 in Chorley, 17 May 2011
170 m awayRef 201104CC11049
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 668 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 31, 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 200404C050004 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 2004.