B4116 crash in North West Leicestershire on 12 July 2015 at 09:25 involving a Suzuki GSX 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSX 650 motorcycle crashed on the B4116 in North West Leicestershire at 09:25 on Sunday 12 July 2015. The 57-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 2015
- Sunday, 09:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSX 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.69162, longitude -1.50075, in the DE12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North West Leicestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015331501005
- Council area
- North West Leicestershire
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4116
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 March 2007.
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on a C road in North West Leicestershire, 23 March 2007
11 m awayRef 2007330702315
Serious
Yamaha crash on a C road in North West Leicestershire, 12 March 2000
13 m awayRef 2000330001948
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B4116 in North West Leicestershire, 3 August 1994
19 m awayRef 1994339405722
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B4116 in North West Leicestershire, 19 May 1997
20 m awayRef 1997339703569
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on the B4116 in North West Leicestershire, 1 November 2006
20 m awayRef 2006330607803
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the B4116 in North West Leicestershire, 31 July 2003
30 m awayRef 2003330305887
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSX 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 656 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 57, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSX 650)
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 2015331501005 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North West Leicestershire road accident statistics for 2015.