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Serious A324 crash in Rushmoor on 10 September 1981 at 20:40 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A324 in Rushmoor at 20:40 on Thursday 10 September 1981. A 25-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and a 24-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
10 Sep 1981
Thursday, 20:40
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23625, longitude -0.75377, in the GU11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Aldershot.

Map of where the crash happened in Rushmoor

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1981440AA0258
Council area
Rushmoor
Police force
Hampshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
324
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 1979.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    31 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

  • Casualty 2: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 1981440AA0258 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rushmoor road accident statistics for 1981.