Unclassified road crash in Somerset TA6 on 2 July 1986 at 16:40 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Somerset at 16:40 on Wednesday 2 July 1986. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 1986
- Wednesday, 16:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.13156, longitude -2.98248, in the TA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bridgwater. The location was in the former Sedgemoor district.
Map of where the crash happened in Somerset
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198652GB01038
- Council area
- Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 August 2014.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 4 August 2014
9 m awayRef 2014520408303
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 21 May 1986
10 m awayRef 198652GB00890
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 1 July 2014
13 m awayRef 2014520404361
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 15 September 2013
14 m awayRef 2013520307061
Slight
KTM 125 Duke crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 31 July 2025
14 m awayRef 2025520501217
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Somerset, 18 May 2013
14 m awayRef 2013520303366
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198652GB01038 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Somerset road accident statistics for 1986.