Serious A5145 crash in Manchester on 26 September 2020 at 23:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A5145 in Manchester at 23:00 on Saturday 26 September 2020. The 28-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Sep 2020
- Saturday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41813, longitude -2.2331, in the M20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Didsbury East, Manchester, M20 3QU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 202006A376121
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5145
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 2012.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A5145 in Manchester, 7 October 2012
5 m awayRef 201206E065218
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A5145 in Manchester, 15 July 2006
5 m awayRef 200606C053285
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A5145 in Manchester, 1 May 2011
6 m awayRef 201106C045530
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 28 December 2022
8 m awayRef 2022061259781
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5145 in Manchester, 5 December 1997
13 m awayRef 199706C220697
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A5145 in Manchester, 2 April 2000
13 m awayRef 200006C010365
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (125cc and under), 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 202006A376121 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 2020.