Unclassified road crash in Cannock Chase WS15 on 12 August 1980 at 22:18 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase at 22:18 on Tuesday 12 August 1980. The 45-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 1980
- Tuesday, 22:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.76697, longitude -1.95639, in the WS15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rugeley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980210200536
- Council area
- Cannock Chase
- Police force
- Staffordshire
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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 1996.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 23 August 1996
36 m awayRef 1996216917403
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 26 March 1983
51 m awayRef 1983213200164
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 6 June 2011
103 m awayRef 2011211003142
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 18 August 1999
112 m awayRef 1999219318841
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 14 December 2009
121 m awayRef 2009219009651
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 19 June 1991
142 m awayRef 1991211209654
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 45, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1980210200536 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cannock Chase road accident statistics for 1980.