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Serious A50 crash in Staffordshire Moorlands on 3 May 1998 at 19:45 involving a Kawasaki ZX1100 motorcycle

A Kawasaki ZX1100 motorcycle and a Volvo 244 were involved in a crash on the A50 in Staffordshire Moorlands at 19:45 on Sunday 3 May 1998. The 30-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX1100 motorcycle was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
3 May 1998
Sunday, 19:45
Vehicles
2
Kawasaki ZX1100 and Volvo 244
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.96248, longitude -2.05549, in the ST11 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Staffordshire Moorlands

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1998218210467
Council area
Staffordshire Moorlands
Police force
Staffordshire
Highway authority
Staffordshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
50
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
70 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Trunk road (National Highways)

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
521

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 slight injury crash on 1 November 1985.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX1100

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years
    Engine capacity
    1,052 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    1 year

  • Vehicle 2: Volvo 244

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    47 years
    Engine capacity
    2,127 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    18 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 30, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX1100)

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 1998218210467 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Staffordshire Moorlands road accident statistics for 1998.