Unclassified road crash in Dover CT17 on 10 March 1981 at 06:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Dover at 06:05 on Tuesday 10 March 1981. The 32-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Mar 1981
- Tuesday, 06:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12683, longitude 1.30852, in the CT17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dover.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981465201621
- Council area
- Dover
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 February 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A256 in Dover, 4 February 1983
At the same spotRef 1983465200953
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Car crash on the A20 in Dover, 24 September 1979
At the same spotRef 1979465207489
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Car crash on the A256 in Dover, 29 July 1988
At the same spotRef 198846DB15008
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Dover, 7 May 1983
At the same spotRef 1983465203303
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A20 in Dover, 24 April 1990
At the same spotRef 199046DB05630
Slight
Bus crash on the A256 in Dover, 23 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982465210482
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1981465201621 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dover road accident statistics for 1981.