Unclassified road crash in West Lancashire PR9 on 21 April 2015 at 18:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Lexmoto Gladiator motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in West Lancashire at 18:30 on Tuesday 21 April 2015. The 21-year-old male rider of the Lexmoto Gladiator motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2015
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Lexmoto Gladiator
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.67697, longitude -2.93188, in the PR9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Banks. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Meols & Hesketh Bank, West Lancashire, PR9 8BB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lancashire
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201504SB15078
- Council area
- West Lancashire
- 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
- 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
- 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, 80 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 1984.
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in West Lancashire, 16 June 1984
80 m awayRef 1984040KL0492
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in West Lancashire, 16 May 1991
114 m awayRef 1991040CH0852
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in West Lancashire, 2 November 1993
152 m awayRef 199304C145993
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in West Lancashire, 11 March 2016
168 m awayRef 201604SB16087
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A565 in West Lancashire, 1 June 2003
233 m awayRef 200304C042103
Slight
Car crash on the A565 in West Lancashire, 13 October 1982
244 m awayRef 1982040KL0743
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Lexmoto Gladiator
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Lexmoto Gladiator)
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 201504SB15078 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lancashire road accident statistics for 2015.