Unclassified road crash in Wyre PR3 on 21 July 1979 at 19:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wyre at 19:50 on Saturday 21 July 1979. The 16-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 1979
- Saturday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.86118, longitude -2.88017, in the PR3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wyre
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979040BF0882
- Council area
- Wyre
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 1999.
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 27 June 1999
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 17 January 1985
28 m awayRef 1985040BF0076
Serious
Citroen Berlingo crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 4 November 2022
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 23 September 1979
98 m awayRef 1979040BF1257
Serious
Alfa Romeo Mito crash on an unclassified road in Fylde, 25 March 2017
103 m awayRef 201704WA17129
Slight
Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 31 December 1981
149 m awayRef 1981040BF1774
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 1979040BF0882 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wyre road accident statistics for 1979.