A444 crash in Hinckley and Bosworth on 24 July 2020 at 13:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A444 in Hinckley and Bosworth at 13:45 on Friday 24 July 2020. The 23-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 2020
- Friday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.5897, longitude -1.47859, in the CV13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Hinckley and Bosworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020332000441
- Council area
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 444
- 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 1990.
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A444 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 2 November 1990
18 m awayRef 1990339008117
Slight
Car crash on the A444 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 26 February 1980
25 m awayRef 19803380N0106
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A444 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 30 October 1995
357 m awayRef 1995339507586
Slight
Honda crash on the A444 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 9 May 1998
387 m awayRef 1998339803441
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A444 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 5 August 1981
397 m awayRef 19813381N0443
Slight
Car crash on the A444 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 12 August 1980
397 m awayRef 19803380N0493
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2020332000441 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hinckley and Bosworth road accident statistics for 2020.