Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 16 May 2010 at 09:30 involving a Piaggio PX125 motorcycle
A Piaggio PX125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Chorley at 09:30 on Sunday 16 May 2010. The 29-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 2010
- Sunday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Piaggio PX125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.66873, longitude -2.68894, in the PR7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Euxton, Chorley, PR7 6BB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201004CA10044
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 34%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 66%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 April 1997.
Slight
Honda C50LA crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 15 April 1997
14 m awayRef 199704C012597
Slight
Yamaha YZF 600 R crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 14 October 2010
14 m awayRef 201004CA10115
Serious
Citroen ZX crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 19 December 1998
20 m awayRef 199804C124798
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 3 October 2005
20 m awayRef 200504CA05073
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 19 October 1982
20 m awayRef 1982040JA1472
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 19 August 1999
22 m awayRef 199904C076399
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio PX125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio PX125)
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 201004CA10044 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 2010.