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A612 crash in Gedling on 1 August 1980 at 19:45 involving a motor scooter

A motor scooter crashed on the A612 in Gedling at 19:45 on Friday 1 August 1980. The 17-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
1 Aug 1980
Friday, 19:45
Vehicles
1
Motor scooter
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.97131, longitude -1.0754, in the NG4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Carlton.

Map of where the crash happened in Gedling

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980314211470
Council area
Gedling
Police force
Nottinghamshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
612
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2015.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    17 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 17, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)

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 1980314211470 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gedling road accident statistics for 1980.