Unclassified road crash in Bridgend CF34 on 7 March 1989 at 18:25 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Bridgend at 18:25 on Tuesday 7 March 1989. The 18-year-old male rider 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 T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Mar 1989
- Tuesday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62545, longitude -3.65796, in the CF34 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maesteg.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989620F03130
- Council area
- Bridgend
- Police force
- South Wales
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 August 1991.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4063 in Bridgend, 27 August 1991
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Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 21 February 2008
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 9 June 1987
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Serious
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A4063 in Bridgend, 4 January 2008
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Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 26 April 2010
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Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Bridgend, 30 May 1990
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 1989620F03130 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bridgend road accident statistics for 1989.