Serious B757 crash in North Lanarkshire on 20 April 2009 at 21:45 involving a Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle crashed on the B757 in North Lanarkshire at 21:45 on Monday 20 April 2009. The 17-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Apr 2009
- Monday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha Ybr 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.91341, longitude -4.14597, in the G66 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Lanarkshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200997NC01904
- Council area
- North Lanarkshire
- Police force
- Strathclyde
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 757
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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, street lights lit
- 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 12 July 2007.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B757 in North Lanarkshire, 12 July 2007
14 m awayRef 200797NC70107
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B819 in East Dunbartonshire, 2 March 1990
30 m awayRef 199097DC00603
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B759 in East Dunbartonshire, 7 September 2001
54 m awayRef 200197CD70409
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B757 in East Dunbartonshire, 6 August 2021
60 m awayRef 2021991074436
Serious
Lexmoto TR crash on the B757 in East Dunbartonshire, 10 April 2025
76 m awayRef 2025991577219
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B757 in North Lanarkshire, 2 September 2001
86 m awayRef 200197NC00209
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha Ybr 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha Ybr 125)
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 200997NC01904 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Lanarkshire road accident statistics for 2009.