Serious A56 crash in Rossendale on 13 September 2020 at 18:24 involving a Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle crashed on the A56 in Rossendale at 18:24 on Sunday 13 September 2020. The 26-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Sep 2020
- Sunday, 18:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GSXR 1000
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69924, longitude -2.33179, in the BB4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenfield & Eden, Rossendale, BB4 5EB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rossendale
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020040980418
- Council area
- Rossendale
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 56
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2010.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 2 December 2010
19 m awayRef 201004FL10124
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 27 June 2024
25 m awayRef 2024041469947
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 28 August 2014
28 m awayRef 201404FL14079
Slight
Car crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 10 January 2003
31 m awayRef 200304F003103
Slight
Citroen DS4 crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 14 July 2014
32 m awayRef 201404FL14067
Slight
Mini Countryman crash on the A56 in Rossendale, 31 March 2024
32 m awayRef 2024041426823
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 1000)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2020040980418 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 2020.