B1273 crash in Lincoln on 27 March 2008 at 11:39 involving a Yamaha FZS 600 motorcycle
A Yamaha FZS 600 motorcycle and a taxi were involved in a crash on the B1273 in Lincoln at 11:39 on Thursday 27 March 2008. The 35-year-old male rider of the Yamaha FZS 600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Mar 2008
- Thursday, 11:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha FZS 600 and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.22702, longitude -0.55037, in the LN6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lincoln. It is one of the crashes that make up the Boultham, Lincoln, LN5 7AL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lincoln
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200832D085608
- Council area
- Lincoln
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1273
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 1003
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Footbridge or subway
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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2005.
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the B1273 in Lincoln, 28 November 2005
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lincoln, 29 January 2020
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1273 in Lincoln, 1 October 2002
20 m awayRef 200232D142802
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1273 in Lincoln, 14 September 2022
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Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the B1273 in Lincoln, 12 November 2023
21 m awayRef 2023320701555
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha FZS 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha FZS 600)
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 200832D085608 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lincoln road accident statistics for 2008.