Serious B5231 crash in Salford on 28 January 2000 at 15:26 involving a Mercedes lorry
A Mercedes lorry and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B5231 in Salford at 15:26 on Friday 28 January 2000. The 52-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Jan 2000
- Friday, 15:26
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48537, longitude -2.35849, in the M30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eccles.
Map of where the crash happened in Salford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200006F005986
- Council area
- Salford
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5231
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2013.
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B5231 in Salford, 9 June 2013
At the same spotRef 201306F074142
Serious
Citroen C4 crash on the B5231 in Salford, 6 March 2019
7 m awayRef 201906F154398
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5231 in Salford, 17 December 2012
7 m awayRef 201206F068266
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B5231 in Salford, 29 December 1992
10 m awayRef 199206F320092
Slight
Van crash on the B5231 in Salford, 13 July 1994
10 m awayRef 199406F115894
Slight
Car crash on the B5231 in Salford, 14 September 1988
10 m awayRef 198806F245988
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 200006F005986 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Salford road accident statistics for 2000.