Serious A4080 crash on the Isle of Anglesey on 6 February 1983 at 10:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A4080 on the Isle of Anglesey at 10:45 on Sunday 6 February 1983. The 17-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Feb 1983
- Sunday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.17321, longitude -4.30851, in the LL61 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983600A05009
- Council area
- Isle of Anglesey
- Police force
- North Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4080
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 1998.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4080 on the Isle of Anglesey, 17 May 1998
22 m awayRef 1998600AN5022
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A4080 on the Isle of Anglesey, 29 August 1999
51 m awayRef 1999600AN5027
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4080 on the Isle of Anglesey, 25 January 2000
60 m awayRef 2000600AN6005
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A4080 on the Isle of Anglesey, 17 March 2014
106 m awayRef 201460R039818
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4080 on the Isle of Anglesey, 28 February 2006
141 m awayRef 2006600AN5007
Serious
Car crash on the A4080 on the Isle of Anglesey, 28 April 2019
162 m awayRef 201960X057912
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 1983600A05009 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Anglesey road accident statistics for 1983.