A4 crash in Bristol on 22 December 1987 at 18:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A4 in Bristol at 18:10 on Tuesday 22 December 1987. The 30-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 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1987
- Tuesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44282, longitude -2.56886, in the BS4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198752BR01772
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 1988.
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Scooter crash on the A4 in Bristol, 8 May 1988
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Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Bristol, 9 December 1980
At the same spotRef 198052BRO1667
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Jaguar Sovereign crash on the A4 in Bristol, 9 May 1991
At the same spotRef 19915291B0586
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Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Bristol, 6 August 1987
At the same spotRef 198752BR01024
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, 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 198752BR01772 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 1987.