Serious B5053 crash in Staffordshire Moorlands on 17 June 2012 at 10:39 involving a Yamaha XT 600 motorcycle
A Yamaha XT 600 motorcycle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B5053 in Staffordshire Moorlands at 10:39 on Sunday 17 June 2012. The 40-year-old male rider of the Yamaha XT 600 motorcycle and the 74-year-old male cyclist were 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
- 17 Jun 2012
- Sunday, 10:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha XT 600 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.18363, longitude -1.87157, in the SK17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Staffordshire Moorlands
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012212003116
- Council area
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5053
- 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
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- C
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, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 June 2019.
Serious
Toyota Auris crash on the B5053 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 29 June 2019
9 m awayRef 2019210861772
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 11 July 1989
22 m awayRef 1989219402565
Slight
Car crash on the B5053 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 6 September 1990
22 m awayRef 1990210404588
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the B5053 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 5 June 2004
22 m awayRef 2004214217401
Slight
Car crash on the B5053 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 13 August 1987
130 m awayRef 1987217400306
Slight
Lorry crash on the B5053 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 27 June 1995
158 m awayRef 1995215110876
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha XT 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 40, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XT 600)
Casualty 2: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 74, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2012212003116 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 2012.