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A562 crash in Warrington on 18 September 1983 at 14:15 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A562 in Warrington at 14:15 on Sunday 18 September 1983. A 19-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
18 Sep 1983
Sunday, 14:15
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37703, longitude -2.67789, in the WA5 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Warrington

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983073D21206
Council area
Warrington
Police force
Cheshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
562
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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
Daylight
Weather
Fine with high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 1988.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Motorcycle combination

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 19, motorcycle combination rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (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 1983073D21206 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 1983.