Serious unclassified road crash in Woking GU21 on 10 December 1985 at 15:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Woking at 15:20 on Tuesday 10 December 1985. A 17-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Dec 1985
- Tuesday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30571, longitude -0.61331, in the GU21 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198545NW00544
- Council area
- Woking
- Police force
- Surrey
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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 June 1991.
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Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 198545NW00544 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Woking road accident statistics for 1985.