Serious A57 crash in Salford on 25 March 2012 at 18:20 involving a Fiat Panda
A Fiat Panda and a Yamaha motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A57 in Salford at 18:20 on Sunday 25 March 2012. The 19-year-old male rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Mar 2012
- Sunday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Panda and Yamaha
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48303, longitude -2.3124, in the M5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Salford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Weaste & Seedley, Salford, M5 5JL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Salford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201206F058459
- Council area
- Salford
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 57
- 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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 February 2005.
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A57 in Salford, 10 February 2005
6 m awayRef 200506F920263
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A576 in Salford, 25 February 1983
41 m awayRef 198306F050883
Slight
Lorry crash on the A57 in Salford, 7 June 1979
41 m awayRef 197906F001306
Serious
Car crash on the A57 in Salford, 5 May 2003
47 m awayRef 200306F012474
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A57 in Salford, 6 July 1999
57 m awayRef 199906F004797
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Salford, 17 February 1987
82 m awayRef 198706F043187
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Panda
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Yamaha
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha)
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 201206F058459 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 2012.