Unclassified road crash in Rossendale BB4 on 27 April 2017 at 14:09 involving a Lexmoto XFLM 125 motorcycle
A Lexmoto XFLM 125 motorcycle and a Peugeot 208 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale at 14:09 on Thursday 27 April 2017. The 17-year-old male rider of the Lexmoto XFLM 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 2017
- Thursday, 14:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexmoto XFLM 125 and Peugeot 208
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.70489, longitude -2.32595, in the BB4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haslingden. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenfield & Eden, Rossendale, BB4 5EB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201704EF17089
- Council area
- Rossendale
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 680
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2002.
Slight
Hyundai Atoz crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 25 November 2002
At the same spotRef 200204F091102
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 20 June 1999
At the same spotRef 199904F038199
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 28 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200304F090003
Serious
Car crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 8 November 1980
At the same spotRef 1980040HF1141
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A680 in Rossendale, 24 February 2005
At the same spotRef 200504F027705
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B6232 in Rossendale, 16 December 2014
5 m awayRef 201404EF14076
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto XFLM 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 208
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto XFLM 125)
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 201704EF17089 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rossendale road accident statistics for 2017.