Serious unclassified road crash in Warwick CV31 on 23 September 1985 at 16:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Warwick at 16:55 on Monday 23 September 1985. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Sep 1985
- Monday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28037, longitude -1.51918, in the CV31 postcode district and within the built-up area of Royal Leamington Spa.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985238501405
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warwick, 19 December 1984
At the same spotRef 1984238401978
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warwick, 29 November 1979
At the same spotRef 1979230001922
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warwick, 1 May 1982
At the same spotRef 1982238200724
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warwick, 28 October 1986
At the same spotRef 1986238601698
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Warwick, 20 September 1987
At the same spotRef 1987238701433
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warwick, 11 November 1986
At the same spotRef 1986238601926
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Towing and articulation
- Other tow
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 1985238501405 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.