Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA3 on 19 December 2011 at 21:50 involving an MG ZR
An MG ZR and a Piaggio NRG motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 21:50 on Monday 19 December 2011. The 31-year-old male rider of the Piaggio NRG motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2011
- Monday, 21:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- MG ZR and Piaggio NRG
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.06485, longitude -2.87829, in the LA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Morecambe. It is one of the crashes that make up the West End, Lancaster, LA3 1TE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104BB11177
- Council area
- Lancaster
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 2011.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5274 in Lancaster, 1 May 2011
1 m awayRef 201104BB11051
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 1 October 2010
4 m awayRef 201004BB10192
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Lancaster, 3 April 2009
4 m awayRef 200904BB09051
Serious
Rover 25 crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 16 March 2008
4 m awayRef 200804BB08046
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 11 July 1979
4 m awayRef 1979040BB0828
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 4 December 1980
4 m awayRef 1980040BB1607
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MG ZR
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Piaggio NRG
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio NRG)
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 201104BB11177 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 2011.