Serious C road crash in North Norfolk NR12 on 17 February 1985 at 09:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in North Norfolk at 09:30 on Sunday 17 February 1985. The 60-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Feb 1985
- Sunday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.77442, longitude 1.54503, in the NR12 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Norfolk
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985360020258
- Council area
- North Norfolk
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 143 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1991.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on a C road in North Norfolk, 22 June 1991
143 m awayRef 1991360021130
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Norfolk, 4 May 2015
151 m awayRef 2015360090069
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in North Norfolk, 6 December 2005
335 m awayRef 2005360032958
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on a C road in North Norfolk, 24 July 1985
345 m awayRef 1985360021247
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B1151 in North Norfolk, 14 February 1995
515 m awayRef 199536T950112
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B1151 in North Norfolk, 7 July 1996
522 m awayRef 199636T960450
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 60, 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 1985360020258 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Norfolk road accident statistics for 1985.