Serious unclassified road crash in Wiltshire SN14 on 23 October 1980 at 17:55 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Wiltshire at 17:55 on Thursday 23 October 1980. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Oct 1980
- Thursday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46029, longitude -2.20578, in the SN14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198054CS02280
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 228 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 November 2004.
Slight
Tractor crash on an unclassified road in Wiltshire, 12 November 2004
228 m awayRef 200454CS66104
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 13 October 1980
500 m awayRef 198054CS02200
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 28 October 1997
500 m awayRef 199754CS06017
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 6 December 1980
500 m awayRef 198054CS02670
Slight
Suzuki AY 50 crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 10 February 2004
532 m awayRef 200454CS10104
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Wiltshire, 20 July 2009
538 m awayRef 200954EF25509
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198054CS02280 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wiltshire road accident statistics for 1980.