B5321 crash in Lancaster on 27 December 1986 at 16:55 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B5321 in Lancaster at 16:55 on Saturday 27 December 1986. The 34-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
- 27 Dec 1986
- Saturday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986040BB1796
- Council area
- Lancaster
- Police force
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5321
- 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
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 34, 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 1986040BB1796 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 1986.