B1398 crash in West Lindsey on 29 September 1985 at 15:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey at 15:50 on Sunday 29 September 1985. A 19-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Sep 1985
- Sunday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.36945, longitude -0.56615, in the DN21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198532E085485
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 1398
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 70 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 1998.
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 16 July 1998
70 m awayRef 199832E002978
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 16 July 1998
70 m awayRef 199832E002958
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 23 March 2001
73 m awayRef 200132D041401
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 26 April 1997
100 m awayRef 199732E001497
Fatal
Car crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 21 December 1979
100 m awayRef 197932D190679
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1398 in West Lindsey, 18 January 1996
136 m awayRef 199632E000296
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, 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 198532E085485 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 1985.