Serious A50 crash in Cheshire East on 10 October 2017 at 08:00 involving a Keeway TX 125 motorcycle
A Keeway TX 125 motorcycle and a Kia Ceed were involved in a crash on the A50 in Cheshire East at 08:00 on Tuesday 10 October 2017. The 18-year-old male rider of the Keeway TX 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Oct 2017
- Tuesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Keeway TX 125 and Kia Ceed
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.22603, longitude -2.38156, in the CW4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dane Valley, Cheshire East, CW4 8HN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cheshire East
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017077326385
- Council area
- Cheshire East
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 50
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- B
- Second road number
- 5082
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 2017.
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A50 in Cheshire East, 19 October 2017
1 m awayRef 2017077337183
Slight
Rover 75 crash on the A50 in Cheshire East, 11 December 2013
1 m awayRef 2013073351088
Serious
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A50 in Cheshire East, 30 April 2022
2 m awayRef 2022070295457
Slight
Hyundai i20 crash on the A50 in Cheshire East, 29 May 2015
4 m awayRef 2015075152140
Serious
Skoda Kamiq crash on the A50 in Cheshire East, 10 August 2025
4 m awayRef 2025070659105
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A50 in Cheshire East, 27 October 1994
5 m awayRef 1994074C31643
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Keeway TX 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Kia Ceed
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Keeway TX 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2017077326385 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cheshire East road accident statistics for 2017.