A105 crash in Haringey on 27 December 1979 at 15:15 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A105 in Haringey at 15:15 on Thursday 27 December 1979. A 7-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Slight
Date: 27 Dec 1979; Thursday, 15:15
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LRPDF15
Council area: Haringey
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 105
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 197901LRPDF15 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Haringey road accident statistics for 1979.