B4487 crash in Cardiff on 23 January 1985 at 19:55 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B4487 in Cardiff at 19:55 on Wednesday 23 January 1985. The 17-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 Jan 1985
- Wednesday, 19:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48921, longitude -3.21845, in the CF5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cardiff.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985620D01030
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4487
- 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 26 June 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B4488 in Cardiff, 26 June 1989
At the same spotRef 1989620D12760
Slight
Car crash on the B4487 in Cardiff, 11 December 1981
At the same spotRef 1981620D06000
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B4487 in Cardiff, 10 December 1979
At the same spotRef 1979620D06590
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 13 January 1986
At the same spotRef 1986620D00810
Serious
Scooter crash on the B4487 in Cardiff, 13 January 1985
At the same spotRef 1985620D00630
Serious
Car crash on the B4487 in Cardiff, 28 December 1980
At the same spotRef 1980620D06310
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 1985620D01030 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cardiff road accident statistics for 1985.