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Serious A611 crash in Ashfield on 3 July 1979 at 16:55 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A611 in Ashfield at 16:55 on Tuesday 3 July 1979. A 9-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured and the 19-year-old male rider and a 15-year-old female passenger were 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
Serious
Date
3 Jul 1979
Tuesday, 16:55
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
3
1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.03522, longitude -1.19855, in the NG15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hucknall.

Map of where the crash happened in Ashfield

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979314101633
Council area
Ashfield
Police force
Nottinghamshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
611
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 28 September 1991.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (3)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 15, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

  • Casualty 3: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 1979314101633 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ashfield road accident statistics for 1979.