A614 crash in Nottingham on 14 June 1979 at 17:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A614 in Nottingham at 17:20 on Thursday 14 June 1979. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Jun 1979
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.92876, longitude -1.16913, in the NG7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1979315110997
- Council area
- Nottingham
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 614
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6009
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 December 2009.
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Serious
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Serious
Bus crash on the A614 in Nottingham, 1 February 1979
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle combination
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcycle combination rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (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 1979315110997 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.