Serious unclassified road crash in Braintree CM8 on 1 December 1981 at 13:25 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Braintree at 13:25 on Tuesday 1 December 1981. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Dec 1981
- Tuesday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.84835, longitude 0.62641, in the CM8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Silver End.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981420031007
- Council area
- Braintree
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 March 2003.
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Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 21 March 2003
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Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 15 August 2021
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Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 9 December 1991
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Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 30 January 1997
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Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Braintree, 21 September 2006
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 1981420031007 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Braintree road accident statistics for 1981.