A1011 crash in Newham on 28 December 1979 at 21:55 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A1011 in Newham at 21:55 on Friday 28 December 1979. The 23-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

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

Severity: Slight
Date: 28 Dec 1979; Friday, 21:55
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LSVLD79
Council area: Newham
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 1011
Road type: One way street or slip road
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
23 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Slight
Male, aged 23, 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 197901LSVLD79 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newham road accident statistics for 1979.