A669 crash in Rochdale on 13 October 2017 at 17:36 involving a Citroen Xsara
A Citroen Xsara and a KTM RC 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A669 in Rochdale at 17:36 on Friday 13 October 2017. The 18-year-old male rider of the KTM RC 125 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
- 13 Oct 2017
- Friday, 17:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xsara and KTM RC 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.55067, longitude -2.1796, in the M24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Middleton. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Middleton, Rochdale, M24 2TR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Rochdale
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201706P036281
- Council area
- Rochdale
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 669
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 23 June 2019.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A669 in Rochdale, 23 June 2019
1 m awayRef 201906P358809
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A669 in Rochdale, 24 February 2011
3 m awayRef 201106P042928
Serious
Suzuki SV 650 crash on the A669 in Rochdale, 16 May 2007
4 m awayRef 200706P072719
Fatal
Fiat Punto crash on the A669 in Rochdale, 1 July 2000
4 m awayRef 200006P005877
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Rochdale, 5 September 2012
8 m awayRef 201206P064616
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A669 in Rochdale, 18 September 1998
9 m awayRef 199806P255698
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: KTM RC 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (KTM RC 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 201706P036281 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rochdale road accident statistics for 2017.