B102 crash in Hackney on 27 December 1979 at 18:05 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the B102 in Hackney at 18:05 on Thursday 27 December 1979. The 68-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 27 Dec 1979; Thursday, 18:05
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LRSBI46
Council area: Hackney
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 102
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: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
65 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Slight
Male, aged 68, 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 197901LRSBI46 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.