A226 crash in Gravesham on 23 October 1985 at 05:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A226 in Gravesham at 05:45 on Wednesday 23 October 1985. The 24-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 1985
- Wednesday, 05:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44227, longitude 0.35263, in the DA11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Northfleet.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985463109985
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 226
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 14 November 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 14 November 1983
At the same spotRef 1983463108403
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 27 May 1982
At the same spotRef 1982463104002
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 24 April 1988
At the same spotRef 198846CA07238
Slight
Car crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 22 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198946CA38229
Serious
Car crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 5 June 1982
At the same spotRef 1982463104242
Serious
Car crash on the A226 in Gravesham, 25 November 1980
At the same spotRef 1980463109280
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, 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 1985463109985 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gravesham road accident statistics for 1985.