Serious A6 crash in Lancaster on 11 October 2009 at 17:35 involving a Yamaha XVS 650 motorcycle
Four vehicles, including a Yamaha XVS 650 motorcycle and a Nissan Terrano, were involved in a crash on the A6 in Lancaster at 17:35 on Sunday 11 October 2009. The 69-year-old male rider of the Yamaha XVS 650 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Oct 2009
- Sunday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 4
- Yamaha XVS 650 and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.1241, longitude -2.77314, in the LA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Carnforth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Carnforth & Millhead, Lancaster, LA5 9LH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200904BB09147
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 August 2009.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 22 August 2009
10 m awayRef 200904BB09121
Slight
Skoda Yeti crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 14 December 2015
10 m awayRef 201504WB15454
Serious
Urban DZ 125 crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 24 August 2010
14 m awayRef 201004BB10142
Slight
Van crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 31 January 1985
14 m awayRef 1985040BD0214
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 28 December 2009
20 m awayRef 200904BB09195
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 1 December 2000
20 m awayRef 200004B083400
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha XVS 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 650 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Terrano
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,664 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 4: Rover 75
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 69, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XVS 650)
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 200904BB09147 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2009.