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Serious A28 crash in Ashford on 27 April 1979 at 23:20 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A28 in Ashford at 23:20 on Friday 27 April 1979. The 20-year-old male rider and a 17-year-old female passenger were seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
27 Apr 1979
Friday, 23:20
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.06661, longitude 0.67468, in the TN30 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1979467102009
Council area
Ashford
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
28
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 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, street lights lit
Weather
Raining with high winds
Road surface
Dry
Carriageway hazards
Other object in carriageway

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Hit object in carriageway
    Bollard or refuge
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, 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 1979467102009 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ashford road accident statistics for 1979.