Unclassified road crash in Woking GU21 on 24 September 1980 at 22:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Woking at 22:45 on Wednesday 24 September 1980. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 1980
- Wednesday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31587, longitude -0.6064, in the GU21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Woking.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198045CA00312
- Council area
- Woking
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 1984.
Slight
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Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 12 December 2005
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 10 January 2001
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Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 12 December 1993
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 4 August 1991
64 m awayRef 199145NW00268
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, 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 198045CA00312 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Woking road accident statistics for 1980.