A60 crash in Nottingham on 13 November 1981 at 18:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A60 in Nottingham at 18:40 on Friday 13 November 1981. The 33-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Nov 1981
- Friday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.99229, longitude -1.1399, in the NG5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Nottingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981316211784
- Council area
- Nottingham
- Police force
- Nottinghamshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 60
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6514
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
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A60 in Nottingham, 17 June 1982
At the same spotRef 1982316200939
Serious
Car crash on the A60 in Nottingham, 9 October 1982
10 m awayRef 1982316211657
Slight
Car crash on the A60 in Gedling, 10 January 1982
10 m awayRef 1982314200051
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A60 in Gedling, 2 September 1981
10 m awayRef 1981314211787
Serious
Van crash on the A60 in Nottingham, 18 October 1982
10 m awayRef 1982314212152
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A60 in Gedling, 24 September 2025
11 m awayRef 2025311646135
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 33, 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 1981316211784 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Nottingham road accident statistics for 1981.