Serious unclassified road crash in St. Helens WA11 on 16 October 1983 at 19:50 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens at 19:50 on Sunday 16 October 1983. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Oct 1983
- Sunday, 19:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46841, longitude -2.71385, in the WA11 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198305E201216
- Council area
- St. Helens
- Police force
- Merseyside
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 July 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 10 July 1988
10 m awayRef 198805E100924
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 5 March 1982
10 m awayRef 198205E200255
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 12 October 1981
41 m awayRef 198105E202122
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 7 September 1983
41 m awayRef 198305E201005
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 8 August 1983
63 m awayRef 198305E200883
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in St. Helens, 20 February 1980
63 m awayRef 198005L100201
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198305E201216 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the St. Helens road accident statistics for 1983.