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Serious A444 crash in South Derbyshire on 16 October 1994 at 19:55 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A444 in South Derbyshire at 19:55 on Sunday 16 October 1994. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Oct 1994
Sunday, 19:55
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.73453, longitude -1.56307, in the DE12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Overseal and Castle Gresley.

Map of where the crash happened in South Derbyshire

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1994304D00866
Council area
South Derbyshire
Police force
Derbyshire
Highway authority
Derbyshire

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
444
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

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, 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 5 October 1994.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 19, 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 1994304D00866 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Derbyshire road accident statistics for 1994.