Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA2 on 25 January 1998 at 14:30 involving a Honda H100S motorcycle
A Honda H100S motorcycle and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 14:30 on Sunday 25 January 1998. The 18-year-old male rider of the Honda H100S motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jan 1998
- Sunday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda H100S and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.02039, longitude -2.74174, in the LA2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199804B006998
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2001.
Slight
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Slight
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Slight
Skoda Superb crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 3 October 2025
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Serious
Renault Scenic crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 31 January 2007
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 20 September 1992
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Fatal
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 18 July 1999
420 m awayRef 199904B045099
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda H100S
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 98 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda H100S)
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 199804B006998 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.