Serious unclassified road crash in Elmbridge KT22 on 29 October 1987 at 16:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Elmbridge at 16:05 on Thursday 29 October 1987. The 21-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Oct 1987
- Thursday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33947, longitude -0.35932, in the KT22 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198701VD01010
- Council area
- Elmbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2018.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 1 December 2018
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 19 April 1987
22 m awayRef 198701VD00322
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 12 May 2001
22 m awayRef 200145NS06080
Slight
Triumph Street Triple crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 26 September 2022
25 m awayRef 2022451224316
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 5 September 2012
28 m awayRef 201245EL73606
Serious
Piaggio Zip crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 23 October 2000
36 m awayRef 200045NS00741
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, 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 198701VD01010 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Elmbridge road accident statistics for 1987.