Serious C road crash in Warrington WA3 on 3 December 1983 at 13:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Warrington at 13:20 on Saturday 3 December 1983. The 16-year-old male rider was seriously 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 Dec 1983
- Saturday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45328, longitude -2.53003, in the WA3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Culcheth.
Map of where the crash happened in Warrington
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983073D21607
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 62 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 2017.
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Warrington, 21 December 2017
62 m awayRef 2017077409596
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Warrington, 3 June 2002
64 m awayRef 2002070202921
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Warrington, 8 June 2012
71 m awayRef 2012070157425
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Warrington, 12 December 1982
100 m awayRef 1982072D21617
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 3 September 1992
200 m awayRef 199206C180692
Serious
Volvo 440 crash on a C road in Warrington, 21 April 1995
216 m awayRef 1995075B20566
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, 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 1983073D21607 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.