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A628 crash in Barnsley on 17 May 1998 at 13:10 involving a Lambretta motor scooter

A Lambretta motor scooter crashed on the A628 in Barnsley at 13:10 on Sunday 17 May 1998. The 37-year-old male rider and a 32-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
17 May 1998
Sunday, 13:10
Vehicles
1
Lambretta
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.49788, longitude -1.7954, in the SK13 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Barnsley

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199814EE00362
Council area
Barnsley
Police force
South Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
628
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Trunk road (National Highways)

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 6 December 2000.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Lambretta

    Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    37 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 37, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Lambretta)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 32, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Lambretta)

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 199814EE00362 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnsley road accident statistics for 1998.