Serious B5417 crash in Staffordshire Moorlands on 10 August 2023 at 15:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B5417 in Staffordshire Moorlands at 15:00 on Thursday 10 August 2023. The 64-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Aug 2023
- Thursday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.99424, longitude -1.94391, in the ST10 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Staffordshire Moorlands
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023211340844
- Council area
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Staffordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5417
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 89 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 3 December 2009
89 m awayRef 2009219009043
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 22 August 2004
97 m awayRef 2004214225304
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 6 November 2018
149 m awayRef 2018210351196
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 7 January 1998
182 m awayRef 1998218100759
Serious
Honda crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 9 July 1994
188 m awayRef 1994214114028
Slight
Car crash on the B5417 in the Staffordshire Moorlands, 14 August 1984
202 m awayRef 1984214400333
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,077 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 64, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2023211340844 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Staffordshire Moorlands road accident statistics for 2023.