Unclassified road crash in Lancaster LA1 on 15 September 1979 at 15:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster at 15:00 on Saturday 15 September 1979. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Sep 1979
- Saturday, 15:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.04871, longitude -2.79616, in the LA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lancaster.
Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979040BA1197
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 January 2006.
Slight
Hyundai S-Coupe crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 22 January 2006
10 m awayRef 200604BA06019
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 11 May 2006
10 m awayRef 200604BA06096
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 17 December 2004
10 m awayRef 200404B081704
Fatal
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 26 January 1980
10 m awayRef 1980040BA0128
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 15 March 2016
14 m awayRef 201604WB16140
Slight
Lexus IS200 crash on an unclassified road in Lancaster, 27 October 2012
15 m awayRef 201204BA12149
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 1979040BA1197 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 1979.