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A580 crash in Salford on 27 December 1981 at 16:00 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A580 in Salford at 16:00 on Sunday 27 December 1981. The 23-year-old female rider was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in snow on a dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
27 Dec 1981
Sunday, 16:00
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.50429, longitude -2.34522, in the M27 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swinton.

Map of where the crash happened in Salford

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198106F003003
Council area
Salford
Police force
Greater Manchester

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
580
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
A
Second road number
572

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Snowing, no high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 October 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    23 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Female, aged 23, 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 198106F003003 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Salford road accident statistics for 1981.