Serious unclassified road crash in Staffordshire Moorlands SK17 on 21 November 2000 at 05:40 involving a Honda NSR125 motorcycle
A Honda NSR125 motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Staffordshire Moorlands at 05:40 on Tuesday 21 November 2000. The 18-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Nov 2000
- Tuesday, 05:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda NSR125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.13516, longitude -1.85274, in the SK17 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000210220572
- Council area
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 239 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 1980.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 28 August 1980
239 m awayRef 1980210400291
Fatal
BMW M1 crash on the B5054 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 5 January 2018
434 m awayRef 2018210254782
Slight
Land Rover 90 crash on the B5054 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 2 September 1994
436 m awayRef 1994214114437
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B5054 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 30 May 2007
488 m awayRef 2007217014256
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on an unclassified road in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 7 December 1995
587 m awayRef 1995215104847
Serious
Lorry crash on the B5054 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 6 January 2018
611 m awayRef 2018210276466
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda NSR125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda NSR125)
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 2000210220572 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Staffordshire Moorlands road accident statistics for 2000.