A461 crash in Lichfield on 13 May 1998 at 22:50 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A461 in Lichfield at 22:50 on Wednesday 13 May 1998. The 28-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 May 1998
- Wednesday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64333, longitude -1.90478, in the WS14 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998218810998
- Council area
- Lichfield
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 461
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 June 1997.
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A461 in Lichfield, 1 June 1997
At the same spotRef 1997217811245
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A461 in Lichfield, 16 March 2010
At the same spotRef 2010210001829
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the A461 in Lichfield, 22 January 2025
2 m awayRef 2025211544738
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A461 in Lichfield, 5 February 2025
7 m awayRef 2025211550985
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A461 in Lichfield, 1 February 1994
10 m awayRef 1994214916072
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Lichfield, 15 April 2008
10 m awayRef 2008218008594
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, 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 1998218810998 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lichfield road accident statistics for 1998.