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Serious B5040 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 18 November 1984 at 00:25 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the B5040 in Stoke-on-Trent at 00:25 on Sunday 18 November 1984. The 30-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
18 Nov 1984
Sunday, 00:25
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.01976, longitude -2.14262, in the ST2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent.

Map of where the crash happened in Stoke-on-Trent

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1984214300705
Council area
Stoke-on-Trent
Police force
Staffordshire

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
5040
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 30, motorcyclist, 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 1984214300705 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stoke-on-Trent road accident statistics for 1984.