Serious A5073 crash in Blackpool on 28 April 2018 at 20:30 involving a Yamaha FZS 600 motorcycle
A car and a Yamaha FZS 600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A5073 in Blackpool at 20:30 on Saturday 28 April 2018. The 28-year-old male rider of the Yamaha FZS 600 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Apr 2018
- Saturday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Yamaha FZS 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.80258, longitude -3.02774, in the FY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tyldesley, Blackpool, FY1 6RA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Blackpool
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201804WA18128
- Council area
- Blackpool
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5073
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 2007.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 13 September 2007
At the same spotRef 200704AX07082
Slight
Fiat Bravo crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 1 November 2008
At the same spotRef 200804AM08178
Serious
Ford Tourneo Connect crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 18 July 2025
8 m awayRef 2025041618132
Serious
Nissan Note crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 20 April 2023
9 m awayRef 2023041299032
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 14 December 1996
10 m awayRef 199604A073196
Slight
Car crash on the A5073 in Blackpool, 24 May 1995
10 m awayRef 199504A029395
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Yamaha FZS 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha FZS 600)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 201804WA18128 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackpool road accident statistics for 2018.