Serious A4020 crash in Hillingdon on 27 December 1979 at 21:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A4020 in Hillingdon at 21:20 on Thursday 27 December 1979. The 18-year-old female rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Dec 1979
- Thursday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LRVEE65
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4020
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- 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
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 18, 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 197901LRVEE65 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hillingdon road accident statistics for 1979.