Serious unclassified road crash in Wakefield WF4 on 10 February 1985 at 20:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wakefield at 20:35 on Sunday 10 February 1985. The 16-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Feb 1985
- Sunday, 20:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.63548, longitude -1.5139, in the WF4 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198513DA04385
- Council area
- Wakefield
- Police force
- West Yorkshire
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, 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 198513DA04385 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wakefield road accident statistics for 1985.