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Serious B5078 crash in Shropshire on 5 September 1998 at 15:15 involving a Suzuki TL 1000 motorcycle

A Suzuki TL 1000 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the B5078 in Shropshire at 15:15 on Saturday 5 September 1998. The 26-year-old male rider and an 18-year-old male pedestrian were seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
5 Sep 1998
Saturday, 15:15
Vehicles
1
Suzuki TL 1000
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.91839, longitude -3.02988, in the SY10 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199822FL03438
Council area
Shropshire
Police force
West Mercia

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
5078
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 August 2007.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Suzuki TL 1000

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years
    Engine capacity
    1,000 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    0 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 26, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki TL 1000)

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Suzuki TL 1000)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

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 199822FL03438 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Shropshire road accident statistics for 1998.