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Unclassified road crash in Boston PE21 on 12 February 1979 at 00:01 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Boston at 00:01 on Monday 12 February 1979. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
12 Feb 1979
Monday, 00:01
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.9781, longitude -0.03072, in the PE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Boston.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197932A017379
Council area
Boston
Police force
Lincolnshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Snowing, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2008.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 21, 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 197932A017379 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Boston road accident statistics for 1979.