Unclassified road crash in Southampton SO17 on 6 November 1986 at 17:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Southampton at 17:20 on Thursday 6 November 1986. The 53-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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 1986
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.93014, longitude -1.38694, in the SO17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southampton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1986440WP0535
- Council area
- Southampton
- Police force
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Dry
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The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 July 2008.
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Serious
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 53, 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 1986440WP0535 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southampton road accident statistics for 1986.