Unclassified road crash in Nottingham NG6 on 21 July 1979 at 23:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Nottingham at 23:00 on Saturday 21 July 1979. A 23-year-old male passenger on the motorcycle and the 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 1979
- Saturday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.98017, longitude -1.18021, in the NG6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Nottingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979314211782
- Council area
- Nottingham
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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 unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 June 2001.
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Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Nottingham, 6 October 1979
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, 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 1979314211782 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Nottingham road accident statistics for 1979.