Serious A3055 crash on the Isle of Wight on 22 August 1981 at 01:10 involving a van
A van and two cars were involved in a crash on the A3055 on the Isle of Wight at 01:10 on Saturday 22 August 1981. The 21-year-old male driver of the van and a 19-year-old male passenger in the van were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Aug 1981
- Saturday, 01:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Van and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.67503, longitude -1.14515, in the PO36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Brading.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981440LA0077
- Council area
- Isle of Wight
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3055
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 October 1990.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A3055 on the Isle of Wight, 24 October 1990
At the same spotRef 1990440ZS0240
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Wight, 7 September 1991
At the same spotRef 1991440ZS0192
Slight
Bedford crash on the A3055 on the Isle of Wight, 29 July 1997
At the same spotRef 1997440ZD0757
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road on the Isle of Wight, 18 June 1984
At the same spotRef 1984440ZA0071
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A3055 on the Isle of Wight, 15 July 1991
At the same spotRef 1991440ZS0137
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A3055 on the Isle of Wight, 4 June 2001
30 m awayRef 2001440ZD0650
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 1981440LA0077 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Wight road accident statistics for 1981.