C road crash in Halton WA7 on 5 January 1989 at 17:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Halton at 17:20 on Thursday 5 January 1989. The 38-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jan 1989
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.33539, longitude -2.72679, in the WA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Runcorn.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989079E20014
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5155
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 24 May 1991.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B5155 in Halton, 24 May 1991
At the same spotRef 1991071B40769
Serious
Car crash on the A557 in Halton, 23 May 1980
At the same spotRef 1980070E20578
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 12 October 1984
At the same spotRef 1984074E21246
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 24 December 1986
At the same spotRef 1986076E21601
Slight
Peugeot 504 crash on the B5155 in Halton, 12 July 1990
At the same spotRef 1990070E20954
Slight
Opel Ascona crash on the B5155 in Halton, 18 November 1990
At the same spotRef 1990070E21739
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 72 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,647 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 38, 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 1989079E20014 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Halton road accident statistics for 1989.