Serious A429 crash in Warwick on 15 August 1998 at 08:40 involving a Honda NS125R motorcycle
A Honda NS125R motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A429 in Warwick at 08:40 on Saturday 15 August 1998. The 17-year-old male rider of the Honda NS125R motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Aug 1998
- Saturday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda NS125R and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.35376, longitude -1.57579, in the CV8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kenilworth.
Map of where the crash happened in Warwick
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998239801388
- Council area
- Warwick
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 429
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2016.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A429 in Warwick, 24 May 2016
10 m awayRef 2016230083811
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A429 in Warwick, 20 August 2005
14 m awayRef 2005230591164
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A429 in Warwick, 7 May 2005
14 m awayRef 2005230590641
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A429 in Warwick, 8 September 2002
14 m awayRef 2002230291563
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the A429 in Warwick, 9 June 2004
14 m awayRef 2004230490836
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the A429 in Warwick, 23 January 2008
14 m awayRef 2008230890108
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda NS125R
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda NS125R)
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 1998239801388 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warwick road accident statistics for 1998.