Unclassified road crash in the New Forest SP6 on 21 December 1985 at 15:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in the New Forest at 15:30 on Saturday 21 December 1985. The 44-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 1985
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.95616, longitude -1.76945, in the SP6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985440DF0133
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 1985.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in the New Forest, 8 October 1985
30 m awayRef 1985440DF0097
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 23 June 1999
61 m awayRef 1999440DF0059
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in the New Forest, 21 August 1979
61 m awayRef 1979440DF0066
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 22 November 2002
248 m awayRef 2002440DF0115
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in the New Forest, 26 January 2019
321 m awayRef 2019440032285
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in the New Forest, 3 June 2002
362 m awayRef 2002440DF0044
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, 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 1985440DF0133 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the New Forest road accident statistics for 1985.