Unclassified road crash at Heathrow Airport TW6 on 27 April 1986 at 14:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport at 14:15 on Sunday 27 April 1986. The 47-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Apr 1986
- Sunday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46017, longitude -0.43964, in the TW6 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601ID00037
- Council area
- Heathrow Airport
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 1993.
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Minibus crash on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport, 14 April 1986
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Citroen crash on an unclassified road at Heathrow Airport, 30 May 1992
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 47, 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 198601ID00037 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Heathrow Airport road accident statistics for 1986.