Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA2 on 4 April 2016 at 11:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 11:00 on Monday 4 April 2016. An 87-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 2016
- Monday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.07806, longitude -2.76158, in the LA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Halton.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201604WB16147
- Council area
- Lancaster
- 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
- 20 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
- 29%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 71%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 31 August 1990.
Serious
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 31 August 1990
At the same spotRef 1990040BA1281
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 23 November 1989
At the same spotRef 1989040BA1806
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 29 February 1980
10 m awayRef 1980040BD0269
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Lancaster, 1 January 1997
14 m awayRef 199704B000297
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 18 June 1981
20 m awayRef 1981040BD0780
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 16 July 1986
64 m awayRef 1986040BA0978
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 87, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 201604WB16147 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 2016.