A159 crash in West Lindsey on 23 September 1986 at 22:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A159 in West Lindsey at 22:00 on Tuesday 23 September 1986. The 26-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 Sep 1986
- Tuesday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.50183, longitude -0.66421, in the DN21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Scotter.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198632E083886
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 159
- 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
- C
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 12 May 1980.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 12 May 1980
At the same spotRef 198032D071580
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 30 November 1981
At the same spotRef 198132D176481
Slight
Suzuki SX4 crash on a C road in West Lindsey, 26 April 2019
28 m awayRef 2019320212094
Slight
Chrysler Neon crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 7 September 2012
41 m awayRef 201232L250512
Slight
Aprilia crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 26 October 2011
45 m awayRef 201132L316011
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A159 in West Lindsey, 14 August 2021
46 m awayRef 2021320456742
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 198632E083886 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 1986.