Serious unclassified road crash in Blackpool FY5 on 24 September 1981 at 16:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool at 16:55 on Thursday 24 September 1981. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Sep 1981
- Thursday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.87474, longitude -3.03864, in the FY5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981040CH1306
- Council area
- Blackpool
- Police force
- Lancashire
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 September 1984.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 23 September 1984
14 m awayRef 1984040CH1337
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Wyre, 27 March 1991
28 m awayRef 1991040AG0933
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 11 August 1994
32 m awayRef 199404A115694
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 26 October 1980
36 m awayRef 1980040CH1543
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 10 July 2018
40 m awayRef 201804WD18105
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 27 November 2024
54 m awayRef 2024041523363
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 1981040CH1306 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackpool road accident statistics for 1981.