Serious B1440 crash in King's Lynn and West Norfolk on 8 December 2014 at 13:10 involving a Keeway TX 125 motorcycle
A Keeway TX 125 motorcycle crashed on the B1440 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk at 13:10 on Monday 8 December 2014. The 20-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Dec 2014
- Monday, 13:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Keeway TX 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.83152, longitude 0.51637, in the PE35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014360086283
- Council area
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1440
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2011.
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the B1440 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 22 December 2011
4 m awayRef 2011360064104
Slight
Van crash on the B1440 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 7 March 1984
20 m awayRef 1984360050305
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B1440 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 20 November 2013
51 m awayRef 2013360076047
Fatal
Toyota Avensis crash on the B1440 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 19 February 2000
80 m awayRef 200036K000277
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1440 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 2 October 1997
255 m awayRef 199736T970761
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the B1440 in King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 9 August 2012
284 m awayRef 2012360066744
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Keeway TX 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Keeway TX 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 2014360086283 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the King's Lynn and West Norfolk road accident statistics for 2014.