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Serious A5 crash in South Staffordshire on 18 December 1998 at 07:40 involving a Kawasaki KE100 motorcycle

A Kawasaki KE100 motorcycle and a Nissan Primera were involved in a crash on the A5 in South Staffordshire at 07:40 on Friday 18 December 1998. The 50-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki KE100 motorcycle was seriously injured and the 26-year-old male driver of the Nissan Primera was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
18 Dec 1998
Friday, 07:40
Vehicles
2
Kawasaki KE100 and Nissan Primera
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.68309, longitude -2.0683, in the WS11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Four Crosses.

Map of where the crash happened in South Staffordshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1998218928454
Council area
South Staffordshire
Police force
Staffordshire
Highway authority
Staffordshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
5
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
50 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Trunk road (National Highways)

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2007.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Kawasaki KE100

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    50 years
    Engine capacity
    99 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    1 year

  • Vehicle 2: Nissan Primera

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years
    Engine capacity
    1,974 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    6 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 50, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki KE100)

  • Casualty 2: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Primera)

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 1998218928454 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Staffordshire road accident statistics for 1998.