Serious unclassified road crash in Warrington WA3 on 12 July 1983 at 12:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Warrington at 12:30 on Tuesday 12 July 1983. The 18-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jul 1983
- Tuesday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.44698, longitude -2.53145, in the WA3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983073D20863
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2008.
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Slight
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Slight
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Warrington, 25 December 1985
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, 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 1983073D20863 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 1983.