Serious unclassified road crash in Knowsley L36 on 20 May 2019 at 22:40 involving a Lexmoto Assault 125 motorcycle
A Lexmoto Assault 125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Knowsley at 22:40 on Monday 20 May 2019. The 23-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 May 2019
- Monday, 22:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexmoto Assault 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41044, longitude -2.8376, in the L36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Huyton with Roby. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Gabriels, Knowsley, L36 5UX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Knowsley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019051911343
- Council area
- Knowsley
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 11 March 2013.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 11 March 2013
At the same spotRef 201305CC01883
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 7 August 1998
2 m awayRef 1998050184990
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 21 July 1979
8 m awayRef 197905K100565
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 16 August 1995
9 m awayRef 1995050189107
Slight
Daihatsu crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 9 December 1996
9 m awayRef 1996050285282
Serious
Honda Prelude crash on an unclassified road in Knowsley, 29 November 1997
12 m awayRef 1997050244290
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
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto Assault 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2019051911343 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Knowsley road accident statistics for 2019.