C road crash in Norwich NR3 on 16 October 1985 at 13:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Norwich at 13:15 on Wednesday 16 October 1985. The 16-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 1985
- Wednesday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 3
- Motorcycle and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.64476, longitude 1.29129, in the NR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985360011766
- Council area
- Norwich
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 April 1998.
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Car crash on a C road in Norwich, 2 April 1997
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Van crash on a C road in Norwich, 22 July 1986
At the same spotRef 1986360011304
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Car crash on a C road in Norwich, 20 May 1985
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Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Norwich, 10 August 2004
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Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1985360011766 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Norwich road accident statistics for 1985.