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A355 crash in Slough on 24 February 1980 at 10:20 involving a car

A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A355 in Slough at 10:20 on Sunday 24 February 1980. The 49-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
24 Feb 1980
Sunday, 10:20
Vehicles
2
Car and motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50384, longitude -0.61667, in the SL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Slough.

Map of where the crash happened in Slough

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198043C094020
Council area
Slough
Police force
Thames Valley

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
355
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Motorway
Second road number
4

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, 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 28 June 1989.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    52 years

  • Vehicle 2: Motorcycle

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

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 49, 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 198043C094020 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Slough road accident statistics for 1980.