Serious A6 crash in Lancaster on 24 April 1998 at 16:50 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A6 in Lancaster at 16:50 on Friday 24 April 1998. The 17-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Apr 1998
- Friday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.0249, longitude -2.79494, in the LA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lancaster.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199804B028998
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 December 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 30 December 1983
10 m awayRef 1983040BA1770
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 4 December 1980
10 m awayRef 1980040BA1610
Slight
Bus crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 6 September 1979
10 m awayRef 1979040BA1147
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 30 July 2001
20 m awayRef 200104B046001
Fatal
Car crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 1 August 1982
22 m awayRef 1982040BA1066
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A6 in Lancaster, 26 June 2006
22 m awayRef 200604BA06125
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 199804B028998 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.