A13 crash in Newham on 23 December 1998 at 17:00 involving a Honda C90 motor scooter
A Honda C90 motor scooter and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A13 in Newham at 17:00 on Wednesday 23 December 1998. The 29-year-old male rider of the Honda C90 motor scooter was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1998
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda C90 and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51549, longitude 0.00818, in the E16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Newham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801KO00692
- Council area
- Newham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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 22 December 2004.
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At the same spotRef 199501HH00106
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Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A13 in Newham, 25 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200501KF60154
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Lorry crash on the A13 in Newham, 3 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198901KO00148
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Mercedes E Class crash on the A13 in Newham, 22 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701KO00643
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda C90
Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 85 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Honda C90)
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 199801KO00692 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newham road accident statistics for 1998.