Unclassified road crash in Wyre FY6 on 10 August 2012 at 11:53 involving a Ford Focus
A motorcycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wyre at 11:53 on Friday 10 August 2012. The 44-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, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2012
- Friday, 11:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.87418, longitude -2.95828, in the FY6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hambleton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hambleton & Stalmine, Wyre, FY6 9AD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201204BC12155
- Council area
- Wyre
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 August 1996.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A588 in Wyre, 31 August 1996
7 m awayRef 199604B039196
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A588 in Wyre, 30 November 2012
9 m awayRef 201204BC12225
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A588 in Wyre, 28 August 1983
16 m awayRef 1983040BK1151
Slight
Car crash on the A588 in Wyre, 9 November 2010
17 m awayRef 201004BC10260
Slight
Car crash on the A588 in Wyre, 20 April 1979
17 m awayRef 1979040BF0490
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A588 in Wyre, 14 January 2015
17 m awayRef 201504WD15004
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 501 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), 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 201204BC12155 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre road accident statistics for 2012.