B5324 crash in North West Leicestershire on 10 June 2018 at 14:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B5324 in North West Leicestershire at 14:30 on Sunday 10 June 2018. The 62-year-old male rider and a 38-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jun 2018
- Sunday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.76737, longitude -1.39103, in the LE67 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North West Leicestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018331800567
- Council area
- North West Leicestershire
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5324
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a fatal crash on 6 December 2007.
Fatal
Ford Focus crash on the B5324 in North West Leicestershire, 6 December 2007
7 m awayRef 2007330708595
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B5324 in North West Leicestershire, 15 January 2001
7 m awayRef 2001330100495
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the B5324 in North West Leicestershire, 14 August 2010
7 m awayRef 2010331004620
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B5324 in North West Leicestershire, 4 July 1990
21 m awayRef 1990339004864
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5324 in North West Leicestershire, 29 July 1980
21 m awayRef 19803380N0457
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5324 in North West Leicestershire, 2 June 2003
35 m awayRef 2003330304342
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 62, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 38, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2018331800567 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North West Leicestershire road accident statistics for 2018.