A1 crash in Huntingdonshire on 14 August 1985 at 19:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A1 in Huntingdonshire at 19:30 on Wednesday 14 August 1985. The 23-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 1985
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.50007, longitude -0.29259, in the PE7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Huntingdonshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985351221085
- Council area
- Huntingdonshire
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1
- 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
- C
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 8 July 1993.
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in Huntingdonshire, 8 July 1993
At the same spotRef 1993350313593
Serious
Car crash on the A1 in Huntingdonshire, 1 September 1988
At the same spotRef 1988351278188
Slight
Car crash on the A1 in Huntingdonshire, 30 August 1989
At the same spotRef 1989351267389
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on the A1(M) in Huntingdonshire, 10 September 2008
10 m awayRef 2008350320508
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A1 in Huntingdonshire, 10 March 1991
32 m awayRef 1991351064591
Serious
Bus crash on the A1 in Huntingdonshire, 29 April 1990
36 m awayRef 1990351129790
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, 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 1985351221085 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Huntingdonshire road accident statistics for 1985.