Unclassified road crash in Blackpool FY4 on 21 February 1985 at 16:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool at 16:55 on Thursday 21 February 1985. The 18-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 1985
- Thursday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.79822, longitude -3.04222, in the FY4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Blackpool.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985040CD0202
- Council area
- Blackpool
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2017.
Slight
LML Star crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 8 September 2017
14 m awayRef 201704WA17349
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 20 August 1992
20 m awayRef 1992040AA2151
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 13 April 1989
20 m awayRef 1989040AB0861
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Blackpool, 2 May 1997
20 m awayRef 199704A026897
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 17 April 1985
20 m awayRef 1985040CD0448
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Blackpool, 13 October 1981
22 m awayRef 1981040CD1430
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 18, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1985040CD0202 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Blackpool road accident statistics for 1985.