A15 crash in South Kesteven on 22 December 2012 at 04:59 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A15 in South Kesteven at 04:59 on Saturday 22 December 2012. The 20-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2012
- Saturday, 04:59
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68099, longitude -0.33375, in the PE6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Kesteven
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201232N406712
- Council area
- South Kesteven
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 15
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 September 2002.
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A16 in South Kesteven, 14 September 2002
28 m awayRef 200232B138402
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A16 in South Kesteven, 12 February 2011
36 m awayRef 201132B041711
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 21 September 2012
73 m awayRef 201232N269712
Slight
Car crash on the A15 in South Kesteven, 6 June 2024
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Slight
BMW i3 crash on the A1175 in South Kesteven, 27 April 2017
224 m awayRef 2017320177404
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1175 in South Kesteven, 9 April 2025
250 m awayRef 2025320205476
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 201232N406712 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Kesteven road accident statistics for 2012.