A422 crash in Milton Keynes on 11 August 1985 at 10:46 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A422 in Milton Keynes at 10:46 on Sunday 11 August 1985. The 25-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Aug 1985
- Sunday, 10:46
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.09466, longitude -0.69336, in the MK16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Milton Keynes
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198543D028085
- Council area
- Milton Keynes
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 422
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 10 October 1992.
Fatal
Porsche 911 crash on the A509 in Milton Keynes, 10 October 1992
14 m awayRef 199243S014102
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A509 in Milton Keynes, 8 June 1991
20 m awayRef 199143K003651
Serious
Car crash on the A422 in Milton Keynes, 18 November 1984
41 m awayRef 198443D037114
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A509 in Milton Keynes, 1 March 1998
41 m awayRef 199843S006038
Slight
Car crash on the A509 in Milton Keynes, 21 November 2001
54 m awayRef 200143S117111
Serious
Ford KA crash on the A509 in Milton Keynes, 6 August 2011
64 m awayRef 201143S019081
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 198543D028085 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Milton Keynes road accident statistics for 1985.