Serious A527 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 24 August 1986 at 12:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A527 in Stoke-on-Trent at 12:35 on Sunday 24 August 1986. The 57-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Aug 1986
- Sunday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.06255, longitude -2.20335, in the ST6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986216300477
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 527
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 2003.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A5271 in Stoke-on-Trent, 14 February 2003
10 m awayRef 2003213106054
Serious
Nissan Note crash on the A5271 in Stoke-on-Trent, 25 October 2025
15 m awayRef 2025211658984
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in Stoke-on-Trent, 9 December 2017
17 m awayRef 2017210260108
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5271 in Stoke-on-Trent, 8 January 2019
19 m awayRef 2019210808584
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A5271 in Stoke-on-Trent, 16 November 2014
31 m awayRef 2014214005987
Slight
Kia Soul crash on the A5271 in Stoke-on-Trent, 6 November 2015
38 m awayRef 2015210032029
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 57, 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 1986216300477 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 1986.