A631 crash in West Lindsey on 24 January 1987 at 19:55 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A631 in West Lindsey at 19:55 on Saturday 24 January 1987. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 1987
- Saturday, 19:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.38431, longitude -0.32042, in the LN8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Market Rasen.
Map of where the crash happened in West Lindsey
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198732E006387
- Council area
- West Lindsey
- Police force
- Lincolnshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 631
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 83 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2015.
Slight
Proton Gen 2 crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 10 November 2015
83 m awayRef 2015320119897
Serious
Car crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 13 August 2014
89 m awayRef 2014320038311
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 26 May 2025
161 m awayRef 2025320304842
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on an unclassified road in West Lindsey, 11 February 2020
171 m awayRef 2020320091199
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 9 August 2011
286 m awayRef 201132L216411
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the A631 in West Lindsey, 2 December 2016
309 m awayRef 2016320395984
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, 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 198732E006387 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Lindsey road accident statistics for 1987.