Unclassified road crash in South Ribble PR4 on 22 November 2014 at 02:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in South Ribble at 02:55 on Saturday 22 November 2014. The 54-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 2014
- Saturday, 02:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.72224, longitude -2.74803, in the PR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Longton.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404SA14119
- Council area
- South Ribble
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 September 1990.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 19 September 1990
22 m awayRef 1990040DC2552
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 23 March 1980
60 m awayRef 1980040JF0438
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 7 October 1996
61 m awayRef 199604M036696
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 29 June 1980
70 m awayRef 1980040JF0900
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 9 July 2025
71 m awayRef 2025041622149
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 1 April 1995
92 m awayRef 199504M015795
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (125cc 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 201404SA14119 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ribble road accident statistics for 2014.