Serious A5099 crash in Blackpool on 4 July 2012 at 14:40 involving a Vauxhall Insignia
A Vauxhall Insignia, a Honda CBF125M motorcycle and a Ford Mondeo taxi were involved in a crash on the A5099 in Blackpool at 14:40 on Wednesday 4 July 2012. The 24-year-old male rider of the Honda CBF125M motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jul 2012
- Wednesday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Insignia and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.81191, longitude -3.04957, in the FY1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Talbot, Blackpool, FY1 4LE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blackpool
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201204AM12086
- Council area
- Blackpool
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5099
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2018.
Slight
Car crash on the A5099 in Blackpool, 10 June 2018
At the same spotRef 201804WA18174
Serious
Bus crash on the A5099 in Blackpool, 25 March 1987
At the same spotRef 1987040AA0566
Slight
Car crash on the A5099 in Blackpool, 4 September 1982
At the same spotRef 1982040CG1186
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A5099 in Blackpool, 28 May 2024
3 m awayRef 2024041449655
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A5099 in Blackpool, 3 October 2024
4 m awayRef 2024041499271
Serious
Nissan Almera crash on the A5099 in Blackpool, 5 February 2019
7 m awayRef 2019040830283
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Insignia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,956 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBF125M
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 3: Ford Mondeo
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBF125M)
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 201204AM12086 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 2012.