C road crash in Milton Keynes MK8 on 25 July 1985 at 17:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Milton Keynes at 17:15 on Thursday 25 July 1985. The rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jul 1985
- Thursday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.0406, longitude -0.81901, in the MK8 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198543D044075
- Council area
- Milton Keynes
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- C
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Milton Keynes, 5 December 1979
At the same spotRef 197943D019129
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Milton Keynes, 7 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198443D006074
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on a C road in Milton Keynes, 2 November 1995
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Milton Keynes, 4 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199743S011077
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Milton Keynes, 1 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199743S002047
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on a C road in Milton Keynes, 21 October 1996
At the same spotRef 199643S057106
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMotorcyclist, 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 198543D044075 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.