B5261 crash in Blackpool on 26 October 2011 at 13:40 involving a Renault Clio
A motorcycle and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on the B5261 in Blackpool at 13:40 on Wednesday 26 October 2011. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Oct 2011
- Wednesday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79831, longitude -3.03146, in the FY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tyldesley, Blackpool, FY1 6RA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blackpool
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104AM11166
- Council area
- Blackpool
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5261
- 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
- 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 1 August 1989
At the same spotRef 1989040AB1858
Slight
Car crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 5 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200904AM09228
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 12 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025041667366
Slight
Car crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 24 August 2004
10 m awayRef 200404A051004
Slight
Car crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 23 June 1980
10 m awayRef 1980040CD0739
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the B5261 in Blackpool, 9 May 1997
14 m awayRef 199704A029497
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc 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
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc 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 201104AM11166 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackpool road accident statistics for 2011.