Serious A105 crash in Hackney on 17 December 1981 at 17:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A105 in Hackney at 17:50 on Thursday 17 December 1981. A 27-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LHRKC43
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 105
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Snow
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 27, 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 198101LHRKC43 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.