Serious A6003 crash in North Northamptonshire on 22 May 2019 at 22:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire at 22:00 on Wednesday 22 May 2019. The 27-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 May 2019
- Wednesday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47885, longitude -0.7369, in the NN18 postcode district. The location was in the former Corby district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019340C03431
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Northamptonshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6003
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 85%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 15%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 January 1985.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 22 January 1985
13 m awayRef 198534AC00055
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 4 November 1988
23 m awayRef 198834AC00899
Serious
Minibus crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 13 October 1979
30 m awayRef 197934AC00423
Slight
Metrocab Metrocab crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 26 November 2000
47 m awayRef 200034NC00627
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 27 March 2001
79 m awayRef 200134NC00164
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A6003 in North Northamptonshire, 29 March 2007
87 m awayRef 200734NC15397
Vehicles involved (1)
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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 625 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2019340C03431 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 2019.