Serious A1064 crash in Great Yarmouth on 28 April 1985 at 16:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A1064 in Great Yarmouth at 16:15 on Sunday 28 April 1985. A 20-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Apr 1985
- Sunday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.65009, longitude 1.71317, in the NR30 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985360020684
- Council area
- Great Yarmouth
- Police force
- Norfolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1064
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 149
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 1997.
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Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A149 in Great Yarmouth, 3 January 2001
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Central island of roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 20, 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 1985360020684 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Great Yarmouth road accident statistics for 1985.