A255 crash in Thanet on 30 December 1986 at 11:40 involving a car

A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A255 in Thanet at 11:40 on Tuesday 30 December 1986. The 25-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 30 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 11:40
Vehicles: 2; Car and motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986465311986
Council area: Thanet
Police force: Kent

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 255
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: Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
U-turn
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
West
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
40 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
North
Travelling to
South
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
25 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Slight
Male, aged 25, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 1986465311986 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Thanet road accident statistics for 1986.