B5066 crash in Staffordshire Moorlands on 9 September 1979 at 22:37 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B5066 in Staffordshire Moorlands at 22:37 on Sunday 9 September 1979. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Sep 1979
- Sunday, 22:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9567, longitude -2.10579, in the ST3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979219400329
- Council area
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Police force
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5066
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the B5066 in Stafford, 2 September 1982
10 m awayRef 1982212400424
Slight
Car crash on the B5066 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 5 February 1989
14 m awayRef 1989219401853
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B5066 in Stoke-on-Trent, 27 December 1993
14 m awayRef 1993213612291
Serious
Car crash on the B5066 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 13 September 1988
20 m awayRef 1988218401143
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B5066 in East Staffordshire, 3 January 1991
20 m awayRef 1991211405223
Slight
Car crash on the B5066 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 21 December 1979
57 m awayRef 1979219400492
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1979219400329 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Staffordshire Moorlands road accident statistics for 1979.