Serious A638 crash in Doncaster on 21 October 2005 at 08:00 involving a Honda Accord
A motorcycle and a Honda Accord were involved in a crash on the A638 in Doncaster at 08:00 on Friday 21 October 2005. The 36-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Oct 2005
- Friday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.5175, longitude -1.1023, in the DN4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wheatley Hills & Intake, Doncaster, DN2 6BB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Doncaster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200514A270905
- Council area
- Doncaster
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 638
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 August 1997.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A638 in Doncaster, 9 August 1997
10 m awayRef 199714AA00509
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A638 in Doncaster, 9 December 2005
14 m awayRef 200514A269905
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A638 in Doncaster, 9 September 2024
17 m awayRef 2024141498231
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A638 in Doncaster, 4 December 1992
20 m awayRef 199214A102459
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Doncaster, 16 December 2015
24 m awayRef 201514A195215
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A638 in Doncaster, 14 April 2002
28 m awayRef 200214AA00298
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 644 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (over 500cc), 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 200514A270905 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Doncaster road accident statistics for 2005.