Unclassified road crash in Ribble Valley BB18 on 9 August 1985 at 14:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Ribble Valley at 14:40 on Friday 9 August 1985. The 37-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Aug 1985
- Friday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.90491, longitude -2.16906, in the BB18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ribble Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985040GL0639
- Council area
- Ribble Valley
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2000.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Pendle, 21 August 2000
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Slight
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6383 in Pendle, 12 December 2003
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Slight
Van crash on the B6383 in Pendle, 18 April 1986
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Fatal
Car crash on the B6383 in Pendle, 16 July 1988
76 m awayRef 1988040FF1121
Slight
Car crash on the B6383 in Pendle, 19 April 2025
86 m awayRef 2025041591680
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, 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 1985040GL0639 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ribble Valley road accident statistics for 1985.