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Serious A127 crash in Basildon on 23 October 1986 at 06:25 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A127 in Basildon at 06:25 on Thursday 23 October 1986. The 38-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 70 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
23 Oct 1986
Thursday, 06:25
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59305, longitude 0.49758, in the SS12 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Basildon

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
19864200B0860
Council area
Basildon
Police force
Essex

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
127
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
70 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
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 1986.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    Lane or location
    Not on carriageway
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Road sign or traffic signal
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    38 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 38, 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 19864200B0860 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Basildon road accident statistics for 1986.