Unclassified road crash in Bristol BS14 on 1 November 1985 at 20:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bristol at 20:00 on Friday 1 November 1985. The 22-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
- 1 Nov 1985
- Friday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40753, longitude -2.57734, in the BS14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198552BR01530
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 July 1983.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 6 July 1983
At the same spotRef 198352BRO0967
Slight
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At the same spotRef 198852BR01904
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Serious
Suzuki SX4 crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 15 October 2025
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 5 July 1988
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bristol, 26 February 1983
10 m awayRef 198352BRO0295
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- On lay-by or hard shoulder
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198552BR01530 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 1985.