Serious C road crash in North Norfolk on 19 December 1981 at 17:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in North Norfolk at 17:00 on Saturday 19 December 1981. The 63-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 1981
- Saturday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981360021637
- Council area
- North Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 63, 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 1981360021637 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Norfolk road accident statistics for 1981.