Serious A444 crash in Coventry on 31 December 1986 at 07:30 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A444 in Coventry at 07:30 on Wednesday 31 December 1986. The 17-year-old male rider was seriously 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: Serious
Date: 31 Dec 1986; Wednesday, 07:30
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 19862000M3988
Council area: Coventry
Police force: West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 444
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Auto traffic signal
Second road class: B
Second road number: 4110

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
Special conditions at the site: Roadworks
Carriageway hazards: Roadworks

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Turning left
Travelling from
North East
Travelling to
South East
Hit object in carriageway
Road works
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
17 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Serious
Male, aged 17, 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 19862000M3988 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Coventry road accident statistics for 1986.