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Serious A6 crash in Harborough on 8 August 1998 at 15:00 involving a Honda motorcycle

A Honda motorcycle and a Renault 5 were involved in a crash on the A6 in Harborough at 15:00 on Saturday 8 August 1998. The 30-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was 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
8 Aug 1998
Saturday, 15:00
Vehicles
2
Honda and Renault 5
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47304, longitude -0.89139, in the LE16 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Harborough

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1998339805870
Council area
Harborough
Police force
Leicestershire
Highway authority
Leicestershire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
6
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
C

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 12 October 2004.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Honda

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years
    Engine capacity
    749 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    2 years

  • Vehicle 2: Renault 5

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    57 years
    Engine capacity
    1,108 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    10 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 30, 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 1998339805870 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harborough road accident statistics for 1998.