B5240 crash in West Lancashire on 31 August 2010 at 13:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B5240 in West Lancashire at 13:00 on Tuesday 31 August 2010. The 46-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Aug 2010
- Tuesday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.54592, longitude -2.8341, in the L40 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rural South, West Lancashire, L39 0EY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lancashire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201004CK10162
- Council area
- West Lancashire
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5240
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 31%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 69%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the B5240 in West Lancashire, 6 February 1982
At the same spotRef 1982040KJ0078
Slight
Honda CBR125R crash on the B5240 in West Lancashire, 19 September 2010
At the same spotRef 201004CK10174
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the B5240 in West Lancashire, 30 August 2009
At the same spotRef 200904CK09171
Serious
Vauxhall Rascal crash on the B5240 in West Lancashire, 24 March 1997
At the same spotRef 199704C008597
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the B5240 in West Lancashire, 28 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200404C024504
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B5240 in West Lancashire, 26 August 2015
At the same spotRef 201504SB15164
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 46, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201004CK10162 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lancashire road accident statistics for 2010.