Unclassified road crash in Ribble Valley PR3 on 28 December 1998 at 14:00 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ribble Valley at 14:00 on Monday 28 December 1998. The 31-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 1998
- Monday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.84753, longitude -2.60127, in the PR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199804D083098
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 24 October 2019.
Serious
Citroen C4 crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 24 October 2019
58 m awayRef 2019040891438
Serious
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 24 May 2007
64 m awayRef 200704EP07014
Slight
Suzuki EN 125 crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 16 May 2007
92 m awayRef 200704EP07013
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 4 December 1996
158 m awayRef 199604L042596
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 3 February 2003
170 m awayRef 200304E009103
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Ribble Valley, 16 January 2023
206 m awayRef 2023041266623
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, 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 199804D083098 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ribble Valley road accident statistics for 1998.