Serious A523 crash in Staffordshire Moorlands on 18 April 2003 at 19:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A523 in Staffordshire Moorlands at 19:20 on Friday 18 April 2003. The 56-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Apr 2003
- Friday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.12634, longitude -2.05855, in the ST13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Staffordshire Moorlands
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003213208489
- Council area
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 523
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 1991.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 1 November 1991
14 m awayRef 1991211406477
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 28 June 2014
16 m awayRef 2014214003415
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 7 January 1997
20 m awayRef 1997217100683
Serious
Car crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 27 August 1985
20 m awayRef 1985215400369
Serious
Van crash on the A523 in Cannock Chase, 23 October 1980
30 m awayRef 1980210400365
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A523 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 11 February 1993
32 m awayRef 1993213309630
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 592 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (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 2003213208489 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 2003.