Serious unclassified road crash in Chorley PR6 on 13 August 2007 at 22:46 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Chorley at 22:46 on Monday 13 August 2007. The 16-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Aug 2007
- Monday, 22:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.62793, longitude -2.58621, in the PR6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chorley South East & Heath Charnock, Chorley, PR6 9EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200704CC07098
- 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
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2008.
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 22 December 2008
14 m awayRef 200804CC08156
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the M61 in Chorley, 18 December 2009
22 m awayRef 200904TA09257
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 27 December 2025
30 m awayRef 2025041688465
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 15 June 1981
45 m awayRef 1981040JJ0838
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the M61 in Chorley, 6 March 2002
45 m awayRef 200204C025302
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 9 March 2008
45 m awayRef 200804CC08027
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 200704CC07098 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.