C road crash in Hinckley and Bosworth CV13 on 13 February 1998 at 16:09 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a Suzuki TS 50 motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth at 16:09 on Friday 13 February 1998. The 27-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle and the 17-year-old male rider of the Suzuki TS 50 motorcycle were slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Feb 1998
- Friday, 16:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and Suzuki TS 50
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.665, longitude -1.37376, in the CV13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998339801179
- Council area
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Police force
- Leicestershire
- Highway authority
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 582
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 29 April 2003.
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Serious
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Taxi crash on the B582 in Hinckley and Bosworth, 2 November 2007
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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
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki TS 50
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Suzuki TS 50)
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 1998339801179 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hinckley and Bosworth road accident statistics for 1998.