C road crash in Halton WA8 on 7 December 1981 at 19:15 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Halton at 19:15 on Monday 7 December 1981. The 56-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 1981
- Monday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.37386, longitude -2.756, in the WA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Widnes.
Map of where the crash happened in Halton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981071D11587
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 1984.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist, 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 1981071D11587 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Halton road accident statistics for 1981.