Serious A608 crash in Broxtowe on 19 December 1979 at 18:15 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A608 in Broxtowe at 18:15 on Wednesday 19 December 1979. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 1979
- Wednesday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.02349, longitude -1.30701, in the NG16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Eastwood.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979314113314
- Council area
- Broxtowe
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 608
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 1992.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A608 in Broxtowe, 5 June 1992
At the same spotRef 1992317J41341
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A608 in Broxtowe, 5 July 1997
At the same spotRef 1997317H41412
Serious
Kawasaki ZX1000 crash on the A608 in Broxtowe, 16 September 1990
At the same spotRef 1990317J42572
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A608 in Broxtowe, 18 January 1993
At the same spotRef 1993317J40133
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A608 in Broxtowe, 2 December 2015
8 m awayRef 201531D294615
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A608 in Broxtowe, 27 June 1997
10 m awayRef 1997317H41338
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 1979314113314 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Broxtowe road accident statistics for 1979.