A525 crash in Newcastle-under-Lyme on 22 February 2012 at 07:55 involving a Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle
A bicycle and a Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A525 in Newcastle-under-Lyme at 07:55 on Wednesday 22 February 2012. The 37-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Feb 2012
- Wednesday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Suzuki GSF 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.00326, longitude -2.3363, in the CW3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Madeley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Madeley & Betley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, CW3 9JW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Newcastle-under-Lyme
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012212001020
- Council area
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 525
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 1991.
Slight
Car crash on the A525 in Stafford, 1 November 1991
10 m awayRef 1991211711513
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A525 in Stafford, 23 August 1991
10 m awayRef 1991211710983
Slight
Renault Safrane crash on the A525 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 15 December 1998
22 m awayRef 1998218527983
Slight
Iveco crash on the A525 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 22 April 2006
28 m awayRef 2006216211752
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A525 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 15 May 2001
28 m awayRef 2001211208985
Slight
Car crash on the A525 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 12 March 1981
36 m awayRef 1981211700092
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSF 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSF 600)
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 2012212001020 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newcastle-under-Lyme road accident statistics for 2012.