Unclassified road crash in Chorley PR7 on 16 September 2021 at 12:20 involving a Piaggio PX125 motorcycle
A Piaggio PX125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Chorley at 12:20 on Thursday 16 September 2021. The 55-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 2021
- Thursday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Piaggio PX125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.61376, longitude -2.65066, in the PR7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021041089201
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 2023.
Slight
Vauxhall Grandland crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 5 June 2023
3 m awayRef 2023041318022
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 16 December 1993
47 m awayRef 199304C152293
Serious
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 22 December 1982
58 m awayRef 1982040JH1892
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 18 September 1999
65 m awayRef 199904C085199
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 5 April 1981
65 m awayRef 1981040JN0448
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Chorley, 25 November 1999
103 m awayRef 199904C108799
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio PX125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 55, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio PX125)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2021041089201 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 2021.