C road crash in Warrington WA2 on 30 December 1981 at 17:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Warrington at 17:05 on Wednesday 30 December 1981. The 38-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1981
- Wednesday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.41901, longitude -2.55518, in the WA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Warrington.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981071D21697
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 May 2006.
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 23 May 2006
14 m awayRef 2006070602072
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 9 September 2021
64 m awayRef 2021070628424
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Warrington, 22 October 1994
72 m awayRef 1994074B21579
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 22 September 2000
76 m awayRef 2000070011441
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 1 November 1981
100 m awayRef 1981071D21402
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Warrington, 3 August 1989
100 m awayRef 1989079D21086
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 38, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1981071D21697 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 1981.