Unclassified road crash in Swindon SN3 on 9 July 1980 at 19:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swindon at 19:45 on Wednesday 9 July 1980. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jul 1980
- Wednesday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57664, longitude -1.748, in the SN3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stratton St Margaret.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198054DD07040
- Council area
- Swindon
- 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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 21 May 1982
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Bus crash on an unclassified road in Swindon, 18 April 1988
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, 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 198054DD07040 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swindon road accident statistics for 1980.