Serious C road crash in Chesterfield S43 on 15 October 1979 at 11:55 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Chesterfield at 11:55 on Monday 15 October 1979. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Oct 1979
- Monday, 11:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.27589, longitude -1.40311, in the S43 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chesterfield.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979309C02185
- Council area
- Chesterfield
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 15 May 1986
At the same spotRef 1986306C00238
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 16 November 1983
At the same spotRef 1983303C02525
Slight
Kia Carens crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 5 January 2021
29 m awayRef 2021302100211
Slight
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29 m awayRef 2025302501280
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 1 July 2012
32 m awayRef 201230C001073
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Chesterfield, 11 October 2000
41 m awayRef 200030C000696
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, 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 1979309C02185 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chesterfield road accident statistics for 1979.