B1211 crash in West Lindsey on 26 July 1983 at 23:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B1211 in West Lindsey at 23:30 on Tuesday 26 July 1983. The 35-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jul 1983
- Tuesday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.58584, longitude -0.27482, in the DN41 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198332D112683
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1211
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B1211 in West Lindsey, 23 December 2018
50 m awayRef 2018320622288
Serious
Van crash on the B1211 in West Lindsey, 11 March 1980
100 m awayRef 198032D036480
Slight
Van crash on the B1211 in West Lindsey, 9 October 1989
141 m awayRef 198932E065989
Slight
Car crash on the B1211 in West Lindsey, 31 October 2025
148 m awayRef 2025320640097
Slight
Rover Metro crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 15 August 2000
156 m awayRef 200032D010020
Serious
Mitsubishi crash on the B1211 in West Lindsey, 19 November 2001
158 m awayRef 200132D163601
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, 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 198332D112683 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 1983.