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A606 crash in Rushcliffe on 20 July 1979 at 08:00 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A606 in Rushcliffe at 08:00 on Friday 20 July 1979. The 29-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 40 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
20 Jul 1979
Friday, 08:00
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.90135, longitude -1.12059, in the NG12 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Rushcliffe

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979315211192
Council area
Rushcliffe
Police force
Nottinghamshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
606
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
Special conditions at the site
Road surface defective
Carriageway hazards
Poor or defective road surface

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 April 1981.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    29 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 29, motorcyclist, 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 1979315211192 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rushcliffe road accident statistics for 1979.