Serious B4040 crash in South Gloucestershire on 1 January 1985 at 15:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B4040 in South Gloucestershire at 15:30 on Tuesday 1 January 1985. The 29-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jan 1985
- Tuesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5271, longitude -2.29185, in the GL9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198552DC00002
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4040
- 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, 91 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 October 2009.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the B4040 in South Gloucestershire, 15 October 2009
91 m awayRef 2009520909605
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B4040 in South Gloucestershire, 28 October 2009
182 m awayRef 2009520909944
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the B4040 in South Gloucestershire, 4 May 2013
348 m awayRef 2013521302950
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the B4040 in South Gloucestershire, 19 February 2005
357 m awayRef 2005520025101
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B4040 in South Gloucestershire, 20 July 1982
403 m awayRef 198252DCH1175
Slight
Car crash on the B4040 in South Gloucestershire, 17 January 1983
455 m awayRef 198352DCH0079
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 29, 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 198552DC00002 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Gloucestershire road accident statistics for 1985.