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Bikers A6 Booklet 2008 Tcm9-71588
Bikers A6 Booklet 2008 Tcm9-71588
Bikers A6 Booklet 2008 Tcm9-71588
The
s ’
B e to Derbyshire
Guid
fo rm ation
tial rider in
Essen DERBYSHIRE
ROAD SAFETY PARTNERSHIP
Contents
Get ready for Derbyshire roads 1-3
Cromford To
A6 Matlock Bath N
To Belper
The Bikers’ Guide to Derbyshire
To
A621 Sheffield
To
Area covered: To Chesterfield
Baslow to Owler Bar Hathersage
1 1
Distance: A6054 Roundabout
Four and a half miles sign Owler Bar
1
Chevrons
Road dips 1
1 Chevrons
at night? 5% Lay by
in bad weather? 5%
Verdict
The most common factors Steady 1
incline
linked to motorbike crashes
on this route are: Open
moorland
• loss of control by biker
A621 Key
• overtaking by biker
Sign for
Derbyshire Crash Hotspot
Dales
for N.E. 1 Number of Incidents
To Sign
Derbyshire To
Curbar 1
Barlow
1
Sign for 4
bends
1 To
Bus stop Rocks Cutthorpe &
Chesterfield
1 Woodland
Steady
A621
incline Houses
Verdict
The most common Crash
barrier
factors linked to
motorbike crashes on
this route are:
• loss of control by biker Chevrons 1
• excessive speed used Pennine Way Lay by
crossing point 1
by biker
Carsington
1 Knockerdown Water
pub
To Bradbourne 1
Sign for To Hulland
Carsington Key
Water
To Hognaston Crash Hotspot
B5035
1 Number of Incidents
Circular
navigation array
1 Church
Red Lion pub Hill and bends Crash figures
2 Kniveton Crashes involving bikes: 19 Bikers killed or injured: 20
Steep hill &
sharp bends Crash report
How many of these crashes happened:
B5035
red on bends? 80%
post box
at night? 0%
Red 1 The Ketch pub
brick in bad weather? 5%
house
1 open Verdict
ground The most common factors linked to motorbike crashes
on this route are:
Ashbourne • loss of control by biker • lack of judgement of biker
To Derby
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To Buxton
A515 Lay by 1
Car park
Area covered: sign
Road undulates
Ashbourne to Alsop-en-le-Dale with sharp 1
bends
Distance: 1
To Alsop-
Five and a half miles 2 en-le-Dale
Newton
To Milldale & House
Coach &
Church Horses pub
Bentley Fenny
Brook Hotel
Woodland Bentley
2
To Longcliffe
and Via Gellia
To Thorpe Road 1
& Dovedale dips 1 Peak Park
stone sign
1
Entrance to N
1 Sandybrook Park Did you know?
A515 The largest proportion of bikes
Fuel station involved in crashes on this route
To Ashbourne were over 900cc.
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To Matlock
A6 Matlock Bath
1 1 1
Area covered:
High Peak junction to Artist’s
Corner
Artist’s Corner A6 car park
Old
Distance: garage
Three and a half miles
Metal bridge
and lay by
Pedestrian
A54
Cheshire
Number of
1
incidents
Crash figures
A54 Crashes involving bikes: 17
Bikers killed or injured: 21
2
1 Crash report
How many of these crashes
1 happened:
1
on bends? 95%
1
at night? 0%
1
1 in bad weather? 5%
Verdict
1
The most common factors
2 linked to motorbike crashes
Crash on this route are:
barrier • loss of control by biker
1 • excessive speed used by
2
biker
N
Did you know?
Ninety per cent of all
A54 people killed or injured on
this route were bikers.
Buxton
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To Whaley Bridge
1 1 A5004 Long Hill
1 Shady
Oak Area covered:
pub Buxton to Fernilee
Distance:
Five miles
Trees
1
1 Number of incidents
Buxton
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