Unclassified road crash in Warrington WA4 on 19 April 1988 at 23:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Warrington at 23:40 on Tuesday 19 April 1988. The 18-year-old male rider was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Apr 1988
- Tuesday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38019, longitude -2.59075, in the WA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Warrington.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1988078D20564
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 86 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 August 1994.
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Serious
Bicycle crash on the A49 in Warrington, 3 June 1999
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Slight
Gilera Runner 125 crash on the A49 in Warrington, 6 December 2006
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Subaru Forester crash on the A49 in Warrington, 10 December 2009
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A49 in Warrington, 24 May 1992
100 m awayRef 1992072B20640
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1988078D20564 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 1988.