B5085 crash in Cheshire East on 25 May 1998 at 17:20 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B5085 in Cheshire East at 17:20 on Monday 25 May 1998. The 16-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 May 1998
- Monday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.3139, longitude -2.31651, in the WA16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998078C20895
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5085
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 October 1993.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5085 in Cheshire East, 20 October 1993
10 m awayRef 1993073C21549
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B5085 in Cheshire East, 15 June 1984
14 m awayRef 1984074C20709
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B5085 in Cheshire East, 23 October 2022
27 m awayRef 2022070779612
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B5085 in Cheshire East, 25 November 1996
60 m awayRef 1996076C21902
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5085 in Cheshire East, 22 January 2006
63 m awayRef 2006070600302
Serious
Kia Sportage crash on an unclassified road in Cheshire East, 12 December 2024
80 m awayRef 2024071044235
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 16, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 1998078C20895 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire East road accident statistics for 1998.