Unclassified road crash in Fenland PE15 on 21 May 2014 at 21:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Fenland at 21:30 on Wednesday 21 May 2014. The 18-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 May 2014
- Wednesday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.56619, longitude 0.08006, in the PE15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fenland
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014350074014
- Council area
- Fenland
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 March 1997.
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 31 March 1997
28 m awayRef 1997350160897
Serious
Aprilia RS 125 crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 20 December 2017
214 m awayRef 2017350260607
Serious
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 9 July 1996
252 m awayRef 1996350323096
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 7 February 2014
276 m awayRef 2014350021714
Slight
Yamaha XJR 1300 crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 21 July 2004
297 m awayRef 2004350365004
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Fenland, 23 April 2000
326 m awayRef 2000350175700
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 2014350074014 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fenland road accident statistics for 2014.