Serious C road crash in South Derbyshire DE6 on 19 April 2015 at 15:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in South Derbyshire at 15:30 on Sunday 19 April 2015. The 64-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Apr 2015
- Sunday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.93936, longitude -1.62976, in the DE6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Derbyshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015300013350
- Council area
- South Derbyshire
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 March 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 22 March 2015
10 m awayRef 2015300012881
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 25 August 2011
10 m awayRef 201130D000852
Fatal
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 1 February 2003
32 m awayRef 200330D000090
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 13 June 1990
100 m awayRef 1990300D00567
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 7 November 1998
100 m awayRef 1998308D00917
Slight
Car crash on a C road in South Derbyshire, 19 May 1999
210 m awayRef 199930D000399
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 650 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 64, motorcyclist (over 500cc), 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 2015300013350 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Derbyshire road accident statistics for 2015.