Serious unclassified road crash in Rossendale OL12 on 20 October 2019 at 15:48 involving a Suzuki Vitara
A motorcycle and a Suzuki Vitara were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale at 15:48 on Sunday 20 October 2019. The 48-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Oct 2019
- Sunday, 15:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Suzuki Vitara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.64355, longitude -2.18001, in the OL12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitworth.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019040889773
- 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
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 2009.
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 9 August 2009
11 m awayRef 200904FJ09032
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A6066 in Rossendale, 5 April 2011
48 m awayRef 201104FJ11012
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rossendale, 4 April 1989
51 m awayRef 1989040EJ0905
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A671 in the Ribble Valley, 17 March 1999
61 m awayRef 199904E019299
Serious
Car crash on the A671 in Rossendale, 13 July 1985
71 m awayRef 1985040HL0745
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A671 in Burnley, 26 January 1993
75 m awayRef 199304F105593
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 48, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2019040889773 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 2019.