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Serious unclassified road crash in Colchester CO5 on 16 August 1980 at 18:40 involving a car

A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Colchester at 18:40 on Saturday 16 August 1980. A 17-year-old male passenger on the motorcycle and the 22-year-old male rider of the motorcycle were seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Aug 1980
Saturday, 18:40
Vehicles
2
Car and motorcycle
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.77521, longitude 0.90631, in the CO5 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Colchester

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980420050681
Council area
Colchester
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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 53 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2020.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    51 years

  • Vehicle 2: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    22 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)

  • Casualty 2: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 22, motorcyclist, 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 1980420050681 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 1980.