Unclassified road crash in Hyndburn BB6 on 4 July 2005 at 14:57 involving a Piaggio Zip motorcycle
A Piaggio Zip motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Hyndburn at 14:57 on Monday 4 July 2005. The 41-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jul 2005
- Monday, 14:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Piaggio Zip
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77867, longitude -2.41319, in the BB6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Overton, Hyndburn, BB1 4AJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200504EM05008
- 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
- 60 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
- Raining, 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
- 25%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 75%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 31 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 September 2013.
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Serious
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Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Zip
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 41, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Zip)
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 200504EM05008 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.