Serious unclassified road crash in Preston PR2 on 10 September 2011 at 12:45 involving a Kawasaki ZX1000 motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX1000 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Preston at 12:45 on Saturday 10 September 2011. The 43-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Sep 2011
- Saturday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki ZX1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.77539, longitude -2.65755, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ribbleton, Preston, PR2 6NN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201104DR11077
- Council area
- Preston
- 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 January 2004.
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 11 May 1987
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Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 23 February 1994
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Preston, 16 July 1984
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 43, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX1000)
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 201104DR11077 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Preston road accident statistics for 2011.