B5231 crash in Salford on 4 December 2014 at 21:45 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a Longjia LJ motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B5231 in Salford at 21:45 on Thursday 4 December 2014. The 32-year-old female rider of the Longjia LJ motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2014
- Thursday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Longjia LJ
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.49086, longitude -2.35725, in the M30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eccles. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barton & Winton, Salford, M30 8AW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Salford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201406F094575
- Council area
- Salford
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5231
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2003.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B5231 in Salford, 7 May 2003
5 m awayRef 200306F012476
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B5231 in Salford, 11 April 1999
5 m awayRef 199906F004272
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B5229 in Salford, 14 February 1994
11 m awayRef 199406F029094
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Salford, 14 May 1987
11 m awayRef 198706F117187
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Salford, 9 May 1996
11 m awayRef 199606F022396
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B5231 in Salford, 23 July 1993
11 m awayRef 199306F174993
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Longjia LJ
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 32, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Longjia LJ)
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 201406F094575 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 2014.