Serious B6535 crash in Hyndburn on 8 April 2014 at 08:51 involving a Yamaha Ybr 125 motorcycle
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Apr 2014
- Tuesday, 08:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha Ybr 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.78994, longitude -2.4025, in the BB6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Great Harwood.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404EL14045
- Council area
- Hyndburn
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6535
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 2025.
Slight
Vauxhall Viva crash on the B6535 in Hyndburn, 23 September 2025
36 m awayRef 2025041645231
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hyndburn, 27 March 1979
39 m awayRef 1979040HJ0325
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the B6535 in Hyndburn, 28 September 1993
42 m awayRef 199304E162593
Slight
Car crash on the B6535 in Hyndburn, 17 October 1981
42 m awayRef 1981040HJ1007
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6535 in Hyndburn, 8 January 2004
42 m awayRef 200404E004804
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6535 in Hyndburn, 28 January 1997
49 m awayRef 199704J002997
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha Ybr 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 53, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha Ybr 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 201404EL14045 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hyndburn road accident statistics for 2014.