Serious B1241 crash in West Lindsey on 5 July 2018 at 15:44 involving a Lexmoto Assault 125 motorcycle
A Lexmoto Assault 125 motorcycle crashed on the B1241 in West Lindsey at 15:44 on Thursday 5 July 2018. The 45-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jul 2018
- Thursday, 15:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexmoto Assault 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.28347, longitude -0.6625, in the LN1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018320314534
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1241
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 32 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 2 March 1996.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B1241 in West Lindsey, 2 March 1996
32 m awayRef 199632E001036
Slight
Lorry crash on the B1241 in West Lindsey, 14 November 1980
32 m awayRef 198032D169080
Serious
Yamaha FZ crash on the B1241 in West Lindsey, 30 September 2025
61 m awayRef 2025320574479
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B1241 in West Lindsey, 31 August 1985
70 m awayRef 198532E074885
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B1241 in West Lindsey, 18 March 2004
73 m awayRef 200432D040404
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B1241 in West Lindsey, 13 June 2011
93 m awayRef 201132L158811
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto Assault 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto Assault 125)
- 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 2018320314534 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 2018.