Serious A687 crash in Lancaster on 18 April 2010 at 12:20 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Apr 2010
- Sunday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.15131, longitude -2.58623, in the LA6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201004BA10049
- 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
- 687
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 May 2012.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A687 in Lancaster, 3 May 2012
17 m awayRef 201204BA12056
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A687 in Lancaster, 7 September 2009
32 m awayRef 200904BA09165
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the A687 in Lancaster, 5 July 2011
64 m awayRef 201104BA11128
Slight
Car crash on the A687 in Lancaster, 15 August 1990
108 m awayRef 1990040BA1173
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A687 in Lancaster, 13 April 2022
122 m awayRef 2022041166468
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A687 in Lancaster, 8 October 1997
151 m awayRef 199704B068297
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 953 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 40, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
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 201004BA10049 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 2010.