Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA3 on 15 May 2012 at 07:30 involving a Jinlun JL 125 motorcycle
A Jinlun JL 125 motorcycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 07:30 on Tuesday 15 May 2012. The 19-year-old male rider of the Jinlun JL 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 2012
- Tuesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jinlun JL 125 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.05433, longitude -2.88667, in the LA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heysham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Heysham Central, Lancaster, LA3 2DY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201204BB12083
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 October 2013.
Serious
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 23 October 2013
5 m awayRef 201304BB13134
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the B5273 in Lancaster, 16 January 1992
6 m awayRef 1992040BG0083
Serious
Car crash on the B5273 in Lancaster, 1 March 2001
6 m awayRef 200104B011801
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 25 September 2006
6 m awayRef 200604BB06164
Serious
Ford KA crash on the B5273 in Lancaster, 29 July 1998
6 m awayRef 199804B048798
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the B5273 in Lancaster, 23 December 1992
6 m awayRef 1992040BG1891
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jinlun JL 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Jinlun JL 125)
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 201204BB12083 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 2012.