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Serious unclassified road crash in Warwick CV35 on 27 January 1985 at 22:00 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Warwick at 22:00 on Sunday 27 January 1985. The 16-year-old female rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
27 Jan 1985
Sunday, 22:00
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.25376, longitude -1.61761, in the CV35 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Warwick

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1985238500100
Council area
Warwick
Police force
Warwickshire

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 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
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 May 1990.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Motorcycle 50cc and under

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    16 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Female, 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 1985238500100 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warwick road accident statistics for 1985.