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Serious A1139 crash in Peterborough on 10 August 1985 at 18:30 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A1139 in Peterborough at 18:30 on Saturday 10 August 1985. The 21-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
10 Aug 1985
Saturday, 18:30
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.53711, longitude -0.30443, in the PE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Peterborough.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1985351216585
Council area
Peterborough
Police force
Cambridgeshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
1139
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
70 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 2021.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Hit object in carriageway
    Central island of roundabout
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    21 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, 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 1985351216585 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Peterborough road accident statistics for 1985.