Unclassified road crash in Tendring CO15 on 2 March 1980 at 23:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tendring at 23:00 on Sunday 2 March 1980. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 1980
- Sunday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79458, longitude 1.13237, in the CO15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Clacton-on-Sea.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980420040076
- Council area
- Tendring
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 4 December 1981.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 4 December 1981
At the same spotRef 1981420040445
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 13 October 2025
20 m awayRef 2025421654099
Slight
Renault Extra crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 6 May 1998
63 m awayRef 19984200D0147
Serious
Peugeot Speedfight crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 21 November 2004
92 m awayRef 20044200D0434
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 3 September 2002
92 m awayRef 20024200D0362
Slight
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Tendring, 23 August 1998
95 m awayRef 19984200D0306
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 1980420040076 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tendring road accident statistics for 1980.