Serious A5103 crash in Manchester on 12 February 1982 at 07:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A5103 in Manchester at 07:05 on Friday 12 February 1982. The 27-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Feb 1982
- Friday, 07:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45331, longitude -2.24542, in the M14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198206E014782
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5103
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A5103 in Manchester, 29 October 1992
At the same spotRef 199206C226692
Serious
Car crash on the A5103 in Manchester, 27 July 1980
At the same spotRef 198006E000863
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A5103 in Manchester, 29 October 1981
At the same spotRef 198106E001323
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on the A34 in Manchester, 21 September 1991
At the same spotRef 199106C200791
Slight
Van crash on the A5103 in Manchester, 24 July 1986
At the same spotRef 198606E100586
Slight
Car crash on the A5103 in Manchester, 16 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198706E113687
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198206E014782 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 1982.