Serious A105 crash in Hackney on 15 December 1981 at 18:45 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A105 in Hackney at 18:45 on Tuesday 15 December 1981. The 29-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Serious
Date: 15 Dec 1981; Tuesday, 18:45
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LFSJC47
Council area: Hackney
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 105
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry
Carriageway hazards: Other object in carriageway

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Serious
Male, aged 29, 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 198101LFSJC47 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 1981.