A56 crash in Warrington on 19 December 1979 at 23:20 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A56 in Warrington at 23:20 on Wednesday 19 December 1979. The 47-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1979
- Wednesday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197907LJXEE80
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 56
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 47, 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 197907LJXEE80 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 1979.