Serious C road crash in Cheshire East ST7 on 21 September 1983 at 18:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Cheshire East at 18:00 on Wednesday 21 September 1983. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Sep 1983
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.09004, longitude -2.29859, in the ST7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Alsager.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983073B21211
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 March 2000.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Cheshire East, 18 March 2000
45 m awayRef 2000070001905
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Cheshire East, 28 August 1994
51 m awayRef 1994074C31277
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on a C road in Cheshire East, 3 October 2025
72 m awayRef 2025070813477
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Cheshire East, 13 January 2018
84 m awayRef 2018070004595
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on a C road in Cheshire East, 7 October 2022
99 m awayRef 2022070741647
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Cheshire East, 2 November 1980
100 m awayRef 1980070B21544
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1983073B21211 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire East road accident statistics for 1983.