C road crash in Hinckley and Bosworth LE6 on 15 April 1983 at 16:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth at 16:45 on Friday 15 April 1983. The 18-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Apr 1983
- Friday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64608, longitude -1.24249, in the LE6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ratby.
Map of where the crash happened in Hinckley and Bosworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19833383E0250
- Council area
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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 11 July 1987.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 11 July 1987
10 m awayRef 19873387E0541
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 22 July 1983
14 m awayRef 19833383E0540
Slight
Pulse XF 125 crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 14 October 2012
21 m awayRef 2012331206149
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 18 August 1981
57 m awayRef 19813381E0637
Serious
Vauxhall Meriva crash on a C road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 7 December 2015
63 m awayRef 2015331501987
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Hinckley and Bosworth, 21 January 1983
78 m awayRef 19833383E0058
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
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 19833383E0250 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hinckley and Bosworth road accident statistics for 1983.