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A629 crash in Sheffield on 18 February 1985 at 16:02 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A629 in Sheffield at 16:02 on Monday 18 February 1985. The 26-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
18 Feb 1985
Monday, 16:02
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.46171, longitude -1.46573, in the S35 postcode district and within the built-up area of Chapeltown and High Green.

Map of where the crash happened in Sheffield

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198514F200208
Council area
Sheffield
Police force
South Yorkshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
629
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2012.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 26, 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 198514F200208 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sheffield road accident statistics for 1985.