A206 crash in Greenwich on 31 December 1979 at 14:10 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A206 in Greenwich at 14:10 on Monday 31 December 1979. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 31 Dec 1979; Monday, 14:10
Vehicles: 2; Motorcycle and car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LVOCC61
Council area: Greenwich
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 206
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Turning left
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
31 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Slight
Male, aged 19, 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 197901LVOCC61 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Greenwich road accident statistics for 1979.