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Unclassified road crash at Heathrow Airport TW6 on 6 April 1985 at 20:30 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport at 20:30 on Saturday 6 April 1985. The 26-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
6 Apr 1985
Saturday, 20:30
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47972, longitude -0.47714, in the TW6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hillingdon.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198501ID00019
Council area
Heathrow Airport
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
Dark, street lights lit
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 slight injury crash on 26 January 1982.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 26, 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 198501ID00019 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Heathrow Airport road accident statistics for 1985.