Serious C road crash in Halton WA7 on 26 February 1985 at 07:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Halton at 07:25 on Tuesday 26 February 1985. The 63-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Feb 1985
- Tuesday, 07:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.31672, longitude -2.69195, in the WA7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985075E20255
- Council area
- Halton
- Police force
- Cheshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 533
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 63 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2004.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A533 in Halton, 7 June 2004
63 m awayRef 2004070402716
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A533 in Halton, 21 July 2017
71 m awayRef 2017077233007
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A533 in Halton, 25 October 2020
71 m awayRef 2020070647452
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A533 in Halton, 31 October 1992
82 m awayRef 1992072B41350
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Halton, 9 May 1992
82 m awayRef 1992072B40559
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Halton, 6 August 2010
82 m awayRef 2010070228625
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 63, 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 1985075E20255 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Halton road accident statistics for 1985.