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Serious A258 crash in Dover on 16 December 1980 at 07:20 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A258 in Dover at 07:20 on Tuesday 16 December 1980. The 36-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Dec 1980
Tuesday, 07:20
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.15891, longitude 1.35087, in the CT15 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Dover

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1980465210360
Council area
Dover
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
258
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, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 September 1989.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    36 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 36, 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 1980465210360 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dover road accident statistics for 1980.