A5105 crash in Lancaster on 4 December 2009 at 16:25 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a Vespa (Douglas) motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A5105 in Lancaster at 16:25 on Friday 4 December 2009. The 42-year-old male rider of the Vespa (Douglas) motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2009
- Friday, 16:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and Vespa (Douglas)
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.07898, longitude -2.84016, in the LA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Morecambe.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200904BB09190
- 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
- 5105
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5275
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 2011.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A589 in Lancaster, 9 August 2011
8 m awayRef 201104BB11106
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A5105 in Lancaster, 31 August 1998
10 m awayRef 199804B055598
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the A5105 in Lancaster, 10 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200104B078501
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A5105 in Lancaster, 30 August 1995
10 m awayRef 199504B038195
Slight
Nissan Terrano crash on the A5105 in Lancaster, 13 January 2005
10 m awayRef 200504B001105
Serious
Citroen BX crash on the A5105 in Lancaster, 1 May 2002
10 m awayRef 200204B027902
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 70 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vespa (Douglas)
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Vespa (Douglas))
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 200904BB09190 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.