Unclassified road crash in Hyndburn BB5 on 4 August 2005 at 14:50 involving a Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Hyndburn at 14:50 on Thursday 4 August 2005. The 43-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Aug 2005
- Thursday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSXR 1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.74601, longitude -2.42272, in the BB5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Oswald's, Hyndburn, BB5 4PY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Hyndburn
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200504EL05044
- Council area
- Hyndburn
- 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
- 40 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 31%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 69%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 September 2009.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 12 September 2009
10 m awayRef 200904EL09109
Slight
Kymco Pulsar crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 26 October 2016
20 m awayRef 201604ED16500
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 9 November 2016
22 m awayRef 201604ED16538
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Hyndburn, 31 January 2002
36 m awayRef 200204E006802
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 4 October 2006
36 m awayRef 200604EL06144
Serious
Toyota Aygo crash on the B6234 in Hyndburn, 15 March 2025
45 m awayRef 2025041574512
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 43, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 1000)
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 200504EL05044 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hyndburn road accident statistics for 2005.