B1026 crash in Colchester on 9 February 1981 at 19:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B1026 in Colchester at 19:45 on Monday 9 February 1981. The 25-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Feb 1981
- Monday, 19:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.87215, longitude 0.87769, in the CO2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colchester.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981420050100
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1026
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 1990.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B1026 in Colchester, 9 November 1990
At the same spotRef 19904200E1202
Serious
Car crash on the B1026 in Colchester, 16 April 1985
At the same spotRef 19854200E0277
Slight
Car crash on the B1026 in Colchester, 28 October 1983
At the same spotRef 19834200E0943
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the B1026 in Colchester, 12 April 2025
54 m awayRef 2025421577004
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 4 April 2023
68 m awayRef 2023421293717
Slight
Toyota Landcruiser crash on the B1026 in Colchester, 4 December 2016
70 m awayRef 2016420133482
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 1981420050100 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 1981.