Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 17 July 2017 at 20:27 involving a Lexmoto Arrow motorcycle
A Lexmoto Arrow motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Chorley at 20:27 on Monday 17 July 2017. The 58-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 2017
- Monday, 20:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexmoto Arrow
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64787, longitude -2.62807, in the PR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chorley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chorley North West, Chorley, PR7 2TX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201704SC17153
- Council area
- Chorley
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6
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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 2019.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A6 in Chorley, 30 April 2019
2 m awayRef 2019040852530
Fatal
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 11 June 1983
10 m awayRef 1983040JA0794
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6 in Chorley, 20 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199804C017098
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A6 in Chorley, 7 March 2002
10 m awayRef 200204C025802
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Chorley, 1 August 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040JA1179
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 30 August 2010
10 m awayRef 201004CA10094
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto Arrow
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 58, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto Arrow)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 201704SC17153 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 2017.