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Serious A5105 crash in Lancaster on 28 May 1981 at 16:10 involving a car

A car and a motor scooter were involved in a crash on the A5105 in Lancaster at 16:10 on Thursday 28 May 1981. The 19-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
28 May 1981
Thursday, 16:10
Vehicles
2
Car and motor scooter
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.09047, longitude -2.815, in the LA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bolton-le-Sands.

Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1981040BD0646
Council area
Lancaster
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
5105
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 1981.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    74 years

  • Vehicle 2: Motor scooter

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 19, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 2 (Motor scooter)

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 1981040BD0646 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 1981.