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Serious A683 crash in Lancaster on 19 April 1987 at 14:00 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A683 in Lancaster at 14:00 on Sunday 19 April 1987. A 17-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle was seriously injured and the 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
19 Apr 1987
Sunday, 14:00
Vehicles
2
Motorcycle and car
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.13099, longitude -2.62143, in the LA6 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Lancaster

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1987040BA0454
Council area
Lancaster
Police force
Lancashire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
683
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
60 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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 1999.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Waiting to turn right
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    22 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

  • Casualty 2: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 20, 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 1987040BA0454 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lancaster road accident statistics for 1987.