Serious B5111 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 15 February 1980 at 11:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B5111 on the Isle of Anglesey at 11:00 on Friday 15 February 1980. The 31-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Feb 1980
- Friday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.3301, longitude -4.37706, in the LL71 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Anglesey
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1980600A01013
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5111
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 5112
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 1985.
Slight
Scooter crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 1 August 1985
At the same spotRef 1985600A01074
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B5112 on the Isle of Anglesey, 5 July 1999
89 m awayRef 1999600AN3031
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Anglesey, 30 August 1987
100 m awayRef 1987600A01056
Slight
Car crash on the B5112 on the Isle of Anglesey, 16 September 1981
100 m awayRef 1981600A01057
Serious
Saab 99 crash on the B5112 on the Isle of Anglesey, 16 January 1992
100 m awayRef 1992600A01004
Serious
Car crash on the B5111 on the Isle of Anglesey, 24 August 1981
100 m awayRef 1981600A01055
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 31, 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 1980600A01013 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Anglesey road accident statistics for 1980.