Serious A10 crash in Hackney on 25 December 1979 at 20:00 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A10 in Hackney at 20:00 on Tuesday 25 December 1979. A 17-year-old female passenger was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a snow-covered road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 25 Dec 1979; Tuesday, 20:00
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LPUAC46
Council area: Hackney
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 10
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Skidding and overturning
Skidded
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
19 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Serious
Female, aged 17, 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 197901LPUAC46 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hackney road accident statistics for 1979.