Unclassified road crash in Mid Suffolk on 25 December 1979 at 15:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Mid Suffolk at 15:50 on Tuesday 25 December 1979. A 20-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 1979
- Tuesday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197937LPPKV30
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
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
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Snow
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, 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 197937LPPKV30 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 1979.