A2022 crash in Sutton on 27 December 1979 at 16:00 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A2022 in Sutton at 16:00 on Thursday 27 December 1979. The 25-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity: Slight
Date: 27 Dec 1979; Thursday, 16:00
Vehicles: 2; Motorcycle and car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LRQAE13
Council area: Sutton
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 2022
Road type: Roundabout
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Slight
Male, aged 25, 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 197901LRQAE13 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sutton road accident statistics for 1979.