A435 crash in Stratford-on-Avon on 12 November 1985 at 13:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon at 13:00 on Tuesday 12 November 1985. The 18-year-old male rider 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
- 12 Nov 1985
- Tuesday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28579, longitude -1.89147, in the B98 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985238501895
- Council area
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Police force
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 435
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 December 1980.
Serious
Car crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 8 December 1980
At the same spotRef 1980238001992
Slight
Car crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 28 August 1982
At the same spotRef 1982238201377
Slight
Van crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 15 February 1989
At the same spotRef 1989238900314
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 15 September 2002
10 m awayRef 2002230291602
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 4 June 2008
10 m awayRef 2008230890730
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 8 November 2025
31 m awayRef 2025231666792
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 1985238501895 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stratford-on-Avon road accident statistics for 1985.