Unclassified road crash in Cannock Chase WS12 on 24 October 1980 at 08:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase at 08:45 on Friday 24 October 1980. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Oct 1980
- Friday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.72571, longitude -2.01832, in the WS12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cannock.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980210200734
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 14 November 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 14 November 1988
At the same spotRef 1988218202792
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 10 December 1981
At the same spotRef 1981211200874
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 3 May 1989
At the same spotRef 1989219203998
Serious
Harley-Davidson crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 10 September 2008
At the same spotRef 2008218015102
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Cannock Chase, 8 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025211665474
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on a C road in Cannock Chase, 9 September 2016
4 m awayRef 2016210116497
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 1980210200734 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.