B664 crash in Harborough on 17 April 2016 at 13:30 involving a Suzuki GSX 1300 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSX 1300 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B664 in Harborough at 13:30 on Sunday 17 April 2016. The 25-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSX 1300 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Apr 2016
- Sunday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki GSX 1300 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5467, longitude -0.79526, in the LE16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Harborough
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331600641
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 664
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 75 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 June 1997.
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B664 in Harborough, 23 June 1997
75 m awayRef 1997339704583
Serious
Saab 900 crash on the B664 in Harborough, 3 October 1996
103 m awayRef 1996339607278
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B664 in Harborough, 22 November 1996
110 m awayRef 1996339608837
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B664 in Harborough, 5 December 1998
125 m awayRef 1998339809574
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B664 in Harborough, 28 November 1999
164 m awayRef 1999339909382
Serious
Car crash on the B664 in Harborough, 3 January 1989
521 m awayRef 19893389H0002
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSX 1300
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,340 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSX 1300)
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 2016331600641 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harborough road accident statistics for 2016.