A61 crash in Sheffield on 27 September 1985 at 23:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A61 in Sheffield at 23:05 on Friday 27 September 1985. The 25-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 1985
- Friday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45519, longitude -1.49427, in the S35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Sheffield
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198514F201067
- Council area
- Sheffield
- Police force
- South Yorkshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 61
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 1991.
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A61 in Sheffield, 7 September 1991
10 m awayRef 199114F201046
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A61 in Sheffield, 30 November 1997
10 m awayRef 199714JJ01421
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A61 in Sheffield, 31 December 2023
15 m awayRef 2023141393639
Slight
Car crash on the A61 in Sheffield, 4 September 1989
22 m awayRef 198914F201111
Serious
Land Rover Defender crash on the A61 in Sheffield, 3 April 1996
22 m awayRef 199614JJ00412
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A61 in Sheffield, 14 May 2007
22 m awayRef 200714H098307
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 198514F201067 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.