Serious B5136 crash in Cheshire West and Chester on 19 December 1996 at 08:25 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle crashed on the B5136 in Cheshire West and Chester at 08:25 on Thursday 19 December 1996. The 30-year-old female rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 1996
- Thursday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.30283, longitude -3.05397, in the CH64 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1996076A22002
- Council area
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5136
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 March 1999.
Serious
Vauxhall Nova crash on the B5136 in Cheshire West and Chester, 23 March 1999
36 m awayRef 1999079A20444
Slight
Audi A7 crash on the B5136 in Cheshire West and Chester, 4 March 2025
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Slight
Car crash on the B5136 in Cheshire West and Chester, 29 December 1985
64 m awayRef 1985075A21848
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A540 in Cheshire West and Chester, 17 February 1990
64 m awayRef 1990070A20212
Serious
Car crash on the A540 in Cheshire West and Chester, 28 August 1988
64 m awayRef 1988078A21166
Slight
Car crash on the A540 in Cheshire West and Chester, 21 July 1988
64 m awayRef 1988078A21011
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 30, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 1996076A22002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire West and Chester road accident statistics for 1996.