A49 crash in Warrington on 9 August 2018 at 20:40 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on the A49 in Warrington at 20:40 on Thursday 9 August 2018. The 28-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Aug 2018
- Thursday, 20:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37302, longitude -2.58211, in the WA4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Warrington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stockton Heath, Warrington, WA4 2UN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018070246580
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 49
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 5156
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 1999.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A49 in Warrington, 9 November 1999
6 m awayRef 1999079B21693
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A49 in Warrington, 23 June 1994
6 m awayRef 1994074B20787
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the A49 in Warrington, 6 November 1996
6 m awayRef 1996076B21738
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A49 in Warrington, 30 April 1997
6 m awayRef 1997077B20556
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A49 in Warrington, 18 January 2014
7 m awayRef 2014074016195
Slight
Car crash on the B5156 in Warrington, 15 December 2018
8 m awayRef 2018070395673
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 28, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018070246580 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 2018.