Unclassified road crash in Newcastle-under-Lyme ST7 on 28 November 1987 at 14:25 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Newcastle-under-Lyme at 14:25 on Saturday 28 November 1987. The 11-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 1987
- Saturday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.05461, longitude -2.30192, in the ST7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Audley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1987217700896
- Council area
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Police force
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dry
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The nearest, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 2014.
Slight
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Slight
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 20 April 1986
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Slight
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Serious
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 4 December 2025
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Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 9 February 1987
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 11, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 1987217700896 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newcastle-under-Lyme road accident statistics for 1987.