A188 crash in North Tyneside on 7 December 2015 at 16:50 involving a Lexmoto Gladiator motorcycle
A Lexmoto Gladiator motorcycle crashed on the A188 in North Tyneside at 16:50 on Monday 7 December 2015. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2015
- Monday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexmoto Gladiator
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 55.02407, longitude -1.58556, in the NE12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Longbenton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Camperdown, North Tyneside, NE12 7NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in North Tyneside
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015100760015
- Council area
- North Tyneside
- Police force
- Northumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 188
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 1996.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A188 in North Tyneside, 10 January 1996
15 m awayRef 199610I001496
Fatal
Bus crash on the A188 in North Tyneside, 18 December 1981
23 m awayRef 198110C059481
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A188 in North Tyneside, 9 November 1992
24 m awayRef 199210C321592
Slight
Bedford Astra crash on the A188 in North Tyneside, 2 September 1993
34 m awayRef 199310C315593
Serious
Car crash on the A188 in North Tyneside, 11 June 1979
46 m awayRef 197910C023679
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A188 in North Tyneside, 31 August 2008
68 m awayRef 2008100614508
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto Gladiator
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (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 2015100760015 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Tyneside road accident statistics for 2015.