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A13 crash in Thurrock on 26 January 1979 at 06:45 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A13 in Thurrock at 06:45 on Friday 26 January 1979. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
26 Jan 1979
Friday, 06:45
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50556, longitude 0.38039, in the RM16 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979420060040
Council area
Thurrock
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
13
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 1983.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 17, 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 1979420060040 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Thurrock road accident statistics for 1979.