Serious unclassified road crash in Chorley PR6 on 22 January 2007 at 18:05 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Chorley at 18:05 on Monday 22 January 2007. The 27-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jan 2007
- Monday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 200 Series and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.61869, longitude -2.59954, in the PR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Adlington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Adlington & Anderton, Chorley, PR6 9RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704CC07007
- 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
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 November 2006.
Serious
Honda CBR600F crash on the A673 in Chorley, 23 November 2006
10 m awayRef 200604CC06114
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A6 in South Ribble, 22 July 2006
10 m awayRef 200604CL06070
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A673 in Chorley, 5 December 1990
14 m awayRef 1990040CE2113
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A673 in Chorley, 9 January 1997
14 m awayRef 199704C000597
Serious
Transbus Int crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 24 December 2006
22 m awayRef 200604CC06127
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A673 in Chorley, 24 June 1984
50 m awayRef 1984040JJ0917
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), 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 200704CC07007 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 2007.