A49 crash in Warrington on 9 February 1985 at 12:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A49 in Warrington at 12:25 on Saturday 9 February 1985. The 25-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Feb 1985
- Saturday, 12:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38738, longitude -2.58935, in the WA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Warrington.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985075D20195
- Council area
- Warrington
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 49
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 49
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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 2 February 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A49 in Warrington, 2 February 1985
At the same spotRef 1985075D20165
Slight
Talbot Alpine crash on the A49 in Warrington, 17 August 1991
At the same spotRef 1991071B21142
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A49 in Warrington, 13 May 1988
At the same spotRef 1988078D20657
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A49 in Warrington, 13 February 1990
At the same spotRef 1990070D20240
Slight
Car crash on the A49 in Warrington, 4 March 1989
At the same spotRef 1989079D20311
Slight
Freight Rover Sherpa crash on the A49 in Warrington, 27 January 1991
At the same spotRef 1991071B20151
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 25, 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 1985075D20195 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warrington road accident statistics for 1985.