Serious unclassified road crash in Tamworth B77 on 9 August 1985 at 23:45 involving a car
Two cars and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tamworth at 23:45 on Friday 9 August 1985. The 40-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 9 Aug 1985
- Friday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63356, longitude -1.67017, in the B77 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tamworth.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985215500618
- Council area
- Tamworth
- Police force
- Staffordshire
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 (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 3: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 40, motorcyclist, on vehicle 3 (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 1985215500618 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tamworth road accident statistics for 1985.