Serious unclassified road crash in Swale ME12 on 1 October 1985 at 14:12 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swale at 14:12 on Tuesday 1 October 1985. The 36-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Oct 1985
- Tuesday, 14:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44048, longitude 0.76411, in the ME12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sheerness.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985462409145
- Council area
- Swale
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A249 in Swale, 12 September 1980
At the same spotRef 1980466407170
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A250 in Swale, 6 May 1988
At the same spotRef 198846BF03938
Slight
Car crash on the A250 in Swale, 27 August 1985
At the same spotRef 1985462407465
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A249 in Swale, 12 September 1980
At the same spotRef 1980466407030
Slight
Car crash on the A249 in Swale, 27 January 1982
At the same spotRef 1982466400742
Serious
Car crash on the A250 in Swale, 31 August 1985
At the same spotRef 1985462407485
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 36, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 1985462409145 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swale road accident statistics for 1985.