C road crash in Newcastle-under-Lyme ST7 on 16 May 1998 at 13:33 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Newcastle-under-Lyme at 13:33 on Saturday 16 May 1998. The 28-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX600 motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 16 May 1998
- Saturday, 13:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Kawasaki ZX600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.0932, longitude -2.20842, in the ST7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Mow Cop and Harriseahead.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998218511393
- Council area
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 February 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 25 February 1996
22 m awayRef 1996216504208
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 19 February 1984
28 m awayRef 1984214300102
Serious
Yamaha crash on a C road in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 14 September 1997
32 m awayRef 1997217519362
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 2 April 1996
41 m awayRef 1996216507162
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 19 January 1998
45 m awayRef 1998218501748
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 24 October 1992
51 m awayRef 1992212609212
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ZX600
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 592 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ZX600)
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 1998218511393 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newcastle-under-Lyme road accident statistics for 1998.