A6042 crash in Manchester on 17 February 2019 at 12:30 involving an Audi A6
A motorcycle, an Audi A6 and a Toyota Prius were involved in a crash on the A6042 in Manchester at 12:30 on Sunday 17 February 2019. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 2019
- Sunday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Audi A6 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4868, longitude -2.24085, in the M60 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Piccadilly, Manchester, M4 4HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201906A153586
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6042
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 2011.
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A6042 in Manchester, 18 February 2011
4 m awayRef 201106A042737
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A6042 in Manchester, 26 October 2012
4 m awayRef 201206A066711
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A6042 in Manchester, 3 November 2005
6 m awayRef 200506A037532
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 16 January 2006
6 m awayRef 200606A043110
Slight
Car crash on the A6042 in Manchester, 18 December 2013
6 m awayRef 201306A081183
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A6042 in Manchester, 19 June 2001
7 m awayRef 200106A009996
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 955 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- 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 201906A153586 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 2019.