Serious unclassified road crash in Luton LU4 on 25 December 1984 at 15:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Luton at 15:50 on Tuesday 25 December 1984. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Dec 1984
- Tuesday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.88792, longitude -0.43359, in the LU4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Luton.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19844000C2012
- Council area
- Luton
- Police force
- Bedfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 7 September 1984
At the same spotRef 19844000C1307
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 14 September 1983
At the same spotRef 19834000C1259
Slight
Car crash on the B579 in Luton, 24 October 1984
At the same spotRef 19844000C1588
Serious
Car crash on the A505 in Luton, 14 July 1981
At the same spotRef 19814000C1060
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 2 February 1987
At the same spotRef 19874000C0156
Serious
Van crash on an unclassified road in Luton, 16 August 1981
At the same spotRef 19814000C1212
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, 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 19844000C2012 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Luton road accident statistics for 1984.