Serious unclassified road crash in Conwy LL30 on 15 August 1981 at 13:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Conwy at 13:45 on Saturday 15 August 1981. A 49-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured and the 18-year-old male rider and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Aug 1981
- Saturday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.32794, longitude -3.83781, in the LL30 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981600B03124
- Council area
- Conwy
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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The nearest, 81 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2010.
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Serious
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Conwy, 14 May 1990
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Slight
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 49, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, 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 1981600B03124 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Conwy road accident statistics for 1981.