C road crash in Harborough LE8 on 9 March 1985 at 09:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Harborough at 09:10 on Saturday 9 March 1985. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Mar 1985
- Saturday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53343, longitude -1.04393, in the LE8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Fleckney.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19853385S0163
- Council area
- Harborough
- Police force
- Leicestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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 3 March 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Harborough, 3 March 1986
At the same spotRef 19863386S0211
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Taxi crash on a C road in Harborough, 6 October 1995
10 m awayRef 1995339506995
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Bicycle crash on a C road in Harborough, 21 November 1999
32 m awayRef 1999339909674
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Rover 400 Series crash on a C road in Harborough, 4 November 1999
45 m awayRef 1999339908588
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Lorry crash on an unclassified road in Harborough, 5 January 1988
45 m awayRef 19883388H0006
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Car crash on a C road in Harborough, 7 October 1981
54 m awayRef 19813381S0945
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 19853385S0163 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Harborough road accident statistics for 1985.