Serious A619 crash in North East Derbyshire on 5 May 1998 at 19:00 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle, a car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A619 in North East Derbyshire at 19:00 on Tuesday 5 May 1998. A 62-year-old male passenger on the Honda motorcycle was seriously injured and the 37-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 May 1998
- Tuesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Honda and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.23793, longitude -1.56396, in the S42 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North East Derbyshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998308C00314
- Council area
- North East Derbyshire
- Police force
- Derbyshire
- Highway authority
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 619
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 85 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 January 2003.
Slight
Yamaha SR 125 crash on the A619 in North East Derbyshire, 3 January 2003
85 m awayRef 200330C000072
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A619 in North East Derbyshire, 23 April 2024
87 m awayRef 2024302400640
Slight
Massey Ferguson crash on the A619 in North East Derbyshire, 5 January 2000
92 m awayRef 200030C000010
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A619 in North East Derbyshire, 9 January 2008
92 m awayRef 200830C000015
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A619 in North East Derbyshire, 5 May 2014
92 m awayRef 2014300006805
Slight
Car crash on the A619 in North East Derbyshire, 7 December 1980
100 m awayRef 1980300C02705
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,099 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 3: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 62, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 1998308C00314 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North East Derbyshire road accident statistics for 1998.