Serious C road crash in Charnwood LE6 on 6 June 2016 at 12:08 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Charnwood at 12:08 on Monday 6 June 2016. The 73-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Jun 2016
- Monday, 12:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.69388, longitude -1.23264, in the LE6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Charnwood
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016331601004
- Council area
- Charnwood
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2005.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 20 September 2005
2 m awayRef 2005330507062
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 20 June 2001
9 m awayRef 2001330104971
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Charnwood, 15 July 1984
12 m awayRef 19843384E0607
Slight
Vehicle crash on a C road in Charnwood, 18 October 1989
12 m awayRef 19893389B0373
Slight
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on a C road in Charnwood, 13 July 2004
16 m awayRef 2004330405231
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Charnwood, 27 June 1992
21 m awayRef 1992339204340
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 73 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 73, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2016331601004 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Charnwood road accident statistics for 2016.