Serious B6241 crash in Preston on 23 October 2013 at 07:14 involving a Lexus GS300
A Lexus GS300 and a Honda CBR125R motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6241 in Preston at 07:14 on Wednesday 23 October 2013. The 20-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR125R motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Oct 2013
- Wednesday, 07:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexus GS300 and Honda CBR125R
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.76704, longitude -2.72408, in the PR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Preston. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashton, Preston, PR2 1ER area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Preston
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201304DL13090
- Council area
- Preston
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6241
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 2008.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the B6241 in Preston, 6 September 2008
22 m awayRef 200804DL08121
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the B6241 in Preston, 7 January 2005
28 m awayRef 200504D000705
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B6241 in Preston, 22 December 1999
28 m awayRef 199904D075099
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B6241 in Preston, 16 December 1998
32 m awayRef 199804D080098
Slight
Tesla Model 3 crash on the B6241 in Preston, 17 January 2024
46 m awayRef 2024041399470
Serious
Aprilia crash on the B6241 in Preston, 13 May 2004
51 m awayRef 200404D027504
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexus GS300
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR125R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR125R)
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 201304DL13090 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Preston road accident statistics for 2013.