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Serious A12 crash in Braintree on 25 November 1980 at 18:20 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A12 in Braintree at 18:20 on Tuesday 25 November 1980. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
25 Nov 1980
Tuesday, 18:20
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.80818, longitude 0.65309, in the CM8 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Braintree

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980420030989
Council area
Braintree
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
12
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
12

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 slight injury crash on 9 March 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    South
    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 (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 19, motorcyclist, 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 1980420030989 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Braintree road accident statistics for 1980.