Unclassified road crash in Sefton L31 on 6 August 1982 at 14:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Sefton at 14:30 on Friday 6 August 1982. The 18-year-old male rider and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Aug 1982
- Friday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.48794, longitude -2.93286, in the L31 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Sefton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198205B201509
- Council area
- Sefton
- Police force
- Merseyside
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 59 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 January 2017.
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 9 January 2017
59 m awayRef 2017051700102
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 22 October 1986
110 m awayRef 198605B202241
Serious
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 5 October 1998
148 m awayRef 1998050201958
Slight
Car crash on the M57 in Sefton, 22 October 2004
149 m awayRef 200405CH00947
Serious
Mercedes Citan crash on the M57 in Sefton, 11 August 2022
171 m awayRef 2022052201992
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Sefton, 1 December 1980
180 m awayRef 198005J202130
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: 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 198205B201509 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sefton road accident statistics for 1982.