Serious unclassified road crash in Rugby CV21 on 19 December 1985 at 12:55 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Rugby at 12:55 on Thursday 19 December 1985. The 18-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 private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Dec 1985
- Thursday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.38418, longitude -1.25506, in the CV21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rugby.
Map of where the crash happened in Rugby
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985238502003
- Council area
- Rugby
- Police force
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 162 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 May 2014.
Slight
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164 m awayRef 201423N026821
Slight
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Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Rugby, 16 June 2023
165 m awayRef 2023231320678
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Rugby, 4 May 2016
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Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Rugby, 24 January 2018
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 1985238502003 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rugby road accident statistics for 1985.