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A616 crash in Bolsover on 21 March 1987 at 21:50 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A616 in Bolsover at 21:50 on Saturday 21 March 1987. The 40-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
Slight
Date
21 Mar 1987
Saturday, 21:50
Vehicles
2
Motorcycle and other vehicle
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.27129, longitude -1.22774, in the S80 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Bolsover

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1987307C00165
Council area
Bolsover
Police force
Derbyshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
616
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 fatal crash on 28 April 1997.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    40 years

  • Vehicle 2: Other vehicle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Front

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Slight

    Male, aged 40, 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 1987307C00165 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bolsover road accident statistics for 1987.