Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 8 December 2014 at 17:00 involving a Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle
A Yamaha YZF R125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Chorley at 17:00 on Monday 8 December 2014. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2014
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha YZF R125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.6685, longitude -2.64415, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chorley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chorley North & Astley, Chorley, PR7 1SU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201404SC14111
- Council area
- Chorley
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- 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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 October 1985.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B5252 in Chorley, 13 October 1985
7 m awayRef 1985040JA1527
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5252 in Chorley, 14 June 2002
9 m awayRef 200204C059202
Serious
Car crash on the B5252 in Chorley, 3 April 2007
9 m awayRef 200704CA07038
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B5252 in Chorley, 13 October 1997
20 m awayRef 199704C058797
Serious
Ford B-Max crash on the B5252 in Chorley, 11 July 2022
30 m awayRef 2022041197745
Slight
Car crash on the B5252 in Chorley, 19 July 2001
32 m awayRef 200104C063101
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YZF R125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YZF R125)
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 201404SC14111 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 2014.