C road crash in Norwich NR1 on 19 December 1985 at 21:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Norwich at 21:05 on Thursday 19 December 1985. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 1985
- Thursday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.61452, longitude 1.29523, in the NR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Norwich.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985360012296
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 31 August 1983.
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Norwich, 31 August 1983
At the same spotRef 1983360011354
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Norwich, 13 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199636N960807
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Norwich, 17 March 1989
At the same spotRef 1989360010648
Slight
HGV crash on a C road in Norwich, 8 January 2015
2 m awayRef 2015360087283
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Norwich, 20 January 1999
10 m awayRef 199936N990117
Serious
Bus crash on a C road in Norwich, 12 April 1984
10 m awayRef 1984360010594
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 1985360012296 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.