Unclassified road crash in Manchester M20 on 2 September 1980 at 23:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Manchester at 23:30 on Tuesday 2 September 1980. A 16-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Sep 1980
- Tuesday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.42994, longitude -2.24528, in the M20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198006E001021
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 1992.
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Manchester, 6 April 1992
At the same spotRef 199206D059892
Slight
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Serious
Vauxhall Mokka crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 1 August 2025
70 m awayRef 2025061623752
Slight
Talbot Samba crash on a C road in Manchester, 13 February 1993
100 m awayRef 199306D029093
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 24 February 1979
100 m awayRef 197906E000236
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 23 November 1982
100 m awayRef 198206E130382
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198006E001021 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 1980.