A325 crash in Rushmoor on 22 December 1986 at 17:35 involving a motor scooter

A motor scooter crashed on the A325 in Rushmoor at 17:35 on Monday 22 December 1986. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 40 mph limit.

Severity: Slight
Date: 22 Dec 1986; Monday, 17:35
Vehicles: 1; Motor scooter
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986440FR0580
Council area: Rushmoor
Police force: Hampshire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 325
Road type: Roundabout
Speed limit: 40 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres
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: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
South
Skidding and overturning
Skidded and overturned
Hit object in carriageway
Kerb
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
19 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Slight
Male, aged 19, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (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 1986440FR0580 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Rushmoor road accident statistics for 1986.