Unclassified road crash in Norwich on 7 December 1981 at 07:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Norwich at 07:10 on Monday 7 December 1981. The 18-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 1981
- Monday, 07:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981360011531
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 47
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1981360011531 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Norwich road accident statistics for 1981.