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A258 crash in Dover on 24 February 1983 at 15:15 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A258 in Dover at 15:15 on Thursday 24 February 1983. The 23-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Slight
Date
24 Feb 1983
Thursday, 15:15
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22038, longitude 1.4026, in the CT14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Deal.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983465201503
Council area
Dover
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
258
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
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
Other
Road surface
Wet or damp
Special conditions at the site
Road surface defective
Carriageway hazards
Poor or defective road surface

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 7 January 1992.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    23 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 23, 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 1983465201503 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dover road accident statistics for 1983.