Serious A1103 crash in West Lindsey on 12 December 1980 at 18:05 involving a van
A van and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1103 in West Lindsey at 18:05 on Friday 12 December 1980. The 18-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 1980
- Friday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41021, longitude -0.37973, in the LN8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198032D184080
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1103
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 27 March 1979.
Fatal
Car crash on the A1103 in West Lindsey, 27 March 1979
At the same spotRef 197932D044179
Slight
Skoda Felicia crash on the A1103 in West Lindsey, 24 August 2005
41 m awayRef 200532D056905
Slight
Jaguar XF Series crash on the A1103 in West Lindsey, 20 May 2015
41 m awayRef 2015320034142
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1103 in West Lindsey, 29 December 1997
63 m awayRef 199732E005897
Slight
Scania crash on the A1103 in West Lindsey, 20 April 2016
241 m awayRef 2016320090942
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A1103 in West Lindsey, 7 September 2018
255 m awayRef 2018320427921
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198032D184080 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 1980.