Unclassified road crash in South Ribble PR5 on 18 May 2005 at 17:30 involving a Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox motorcycle
A vehicle and a Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble at 17:30 on Wednesday 18 May 2005. The 77-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 18-year-old female rider of the Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 2005
- Wednesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.74163, longitude -2.67194, in the PR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bamber Bridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Walton-le-Dale West, South Ribble, PR5 4JL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200504CM05019
- Council area
- South Ribble
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
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The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 June 2014.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 77 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 77, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha YQ 50 Aerox)
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 200504CM05019 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ribble road accident statistics for 2005.