A38 crash in Ashfield on 7 December 2012 at 20:30 involving a Honda XL125V motorcycle
A car and a Honda XL125V motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A38 in Ashfield at 20:30 on Friday 7 December 2012. The 19-year-old male rider of the Honda XL125V motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2012
- Friday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Honda XL125V
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.1135, longitude -1.26834, in the NG17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kirkby-in-Ashfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leamington, Ashfield, NG17 5BE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ashfield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201231A262912
- Council area
- Ashfield
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6018
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 10 June 2018
4 m awayRef 201831A111418
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 28 January 2013
7 m awayRef 201331A012413
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 1 October 2013
11 m awayRef 201331A215513
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 23 March 2019
21 m awayRef 201931A117219
Slight
Bedford crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 11 October 1994
23 m awayRef 1994317M81503
Serious
Scania crash on the A38 in Ashfield, 4 June 2018
24 m awayRef 201831A097218
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Honda XL125V
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda XL125V)
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 201231A262912 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ashfield road accident statistics for 2012.