Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA3 on 20 January 1998 at 13:30 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 13:30 on Tuesday 20 January 1998. The 20-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 1998
- Tuesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.03775, longitude -2.9097, in the LA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Heysham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199804B004398
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 199804B004398 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 1998.