Serious unclassified road crash in South Gloucestershire BS36 on 3 September 1981 at 19:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire at 19:50 on Thursday 3 September 1981. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured and the 21-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Sep 1981
- Thursday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Motorcycle and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5127, longitude -2.50618, in the BS36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198152DCH1354
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 July 1983.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 21 July 1983
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Slight
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Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 12 October 2010
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 6 July 1981
14 m awayRef 198152DCH0991
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Serious
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 21 May 2025
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 198152DCH1354 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Gloucestershire road accident statistics for 1981.