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Serious unclassified road crash in Wokingham RG40 on 1 October 1985 at 23:30 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wokingham at 23:30 on Tuesday 1 October 1985. A 23-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 60 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
1 Oct 1985
Tuesday, 23:30
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42139, longitude -0.82339, in the RG40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wokingham.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198543E003105
Council area
Wokingham
Police force
Thames Valley

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
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
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 March 1999.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Central island of roundabout
    Leaving the carriageway
    Straight ahead at junction
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 23, 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 198543E003105 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wokingham road accident statistics for 1985.