Serious B6406 crash in Bolsover on 12 November 1981 at 16:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6406 in Bolsover at 16:30 on Thursday 12 November 1981. The 21-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured and the 62-year-old male driver of the car was slightly 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
- 12 Nov 1981
- Thursday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.11004, longitude -1.31876, in the DE55 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Normanton.
Map of where the crash happened in Bolsover
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981301C02460
- Council area
- Bolsover
- Police force
- Derbyshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6406
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the B6406 in Bolsover, 2 November 2004
14 m awayRef 200430A000599
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B6406 in Bolsover, 21 December 2002
32 m awayRef 200230A000779
Slight
Optare Solo crash on the B6406 in Bolsover, 30 August 2003
45 m awayRef 200330A000495
Serious
Skoda Fabia crash on the B6406 in Bolsover, 30 July 2025
88 m awayRef 2025302501463
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Bolsover, 17 January 2001
92 m awayRef 200130A000034
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B6406 in Bolsover, 28 September 1995
100 m awayRef 1995305A00563
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1981301C02460 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bolsover road accident statistics for 1981.