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Serious unclassified road crash in Maldon CM8 on 4 March 1980 at 07:50 involving a car

A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Maldon at 07:50 on Tuesday 4 March 1980. A 24-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle and the 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle were seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
4 Mar 1980
Tuesday, 07:50
Vehicles
2
Car and motorcycle
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.78238, longitude 0.68057, in the CM8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wickham Bishops.

Map of where the crash happened in Maldon

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980420030174
Council area
Maldon
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
70 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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 June 1983.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    25 years

  • Vehicle 2: Motorcycle

    Motorcycle combination

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 24, motorcycle combination rider or passenger, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)

  • Casualty 2: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 19, motorcycle combination rider or passenger, 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 1980420030174 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Maldon road accident statistics for 1980.