A6 crash in Central Bedfordshire on 14 May 1981 at 15:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A6 in Central Bedfordshire at 15:30 on Thursday 14 May 1981. The 31-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 1981
- Thursday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.96334, longitude -0.42514, in the MK45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barton-le-Clay.
Map of where the crash happened in Central Bedfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19814000D0980
- Council area
- Central Bedfordshire
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 1994.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 30 April 1994
At the same spotRef 19944000D0443
Slight
Kawasaki ZX400 crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 30 July 2000
14 m awayRef 2000400D02230
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 13 December 2025
17 m awayRef 2025401688822
Slight
Kia Optima crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 5 July 2017
50 m awayRef 2017400201070
Serious
Honda CRV crash on an unclassified road in Central Bedfordshire, 14 June 2017
66 m awayRef 2017400195376
Slight
Car crash on the B655 in Central Bedfordshire, 4 December 1981
100 m awayRef 19814000D2486
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, 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 19814000D0980 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Central Bedfordshire road accident statistics for 1981.