Serious A461 crash in Walsall on 18 December 1986 at 22:15 involving a car
A car and a motor scooter were involved in a crash on the A461 in Walsall at 22:15 on Thursday 18 December 1986. The 64-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Dec 1986
- Thursday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motor scooter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19862000H2894
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 461
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 64, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 2 (Motor scooter)
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 19862000H2894 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 1986.