Unclassified road crash in South Ribble PR25 on 23 March 2025 at 11:00 involving an electric motorcycle
An electric motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in South Ribble at 11:00 on Sunday 23 March 2025. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2025
- Sunday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Electric motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.69492, longitude -2.68978, in the PR25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leyland. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leyland Central, South Ribble, PR25 2LB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Ribble
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025041573740
- Council area
- South Ribble
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 June 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B5256 in South Ribble, 12 June 2002
24 m awayRef 200204C057102
Serious
Van crash on the B5256 in South Ribble, 6 March 1982
26 m awayRef 1982040JD0256
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B5256 in South Ribble, 24 June 2003
29 m awayRef 200304C051303
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B5256 in South Ribble, 30 September 2001
29 m awayRef 200104C086601
Serious
Volkswagen Transporter crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 24 April 1994
36 m awayRef 199404M041194
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in South Ribble, 17 September 1998
40 m awayRef 199804C088698
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Electric motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, e-scooter or powered transporter user, on vehicle 1 (Electric motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025041573740 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Ribble road accident statistics for 2025.