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Serious A46 crash in North Kesteven on 21 December 1979 at 15:10 involving a motor scooter

A motor scooter crashed on the A46 in North Kesteven at 15:10 on Friday 21 December 1979. The 50-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on an icy single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Dec 1979
Friday, 15:10
Vehicles
1
Motor scooter
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.14532, longitude -0.69773, in the LN6 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in North Kesteven

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197932D189479
Council area
North Kesteven
Police force
Lincolnshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
46
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
70 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
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 1992.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    50 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 50, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)

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 197932D189479 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Kesteven road accident statistics for 1979.