A205 crash in Greenwich on 23 December 1981 at 16:10 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A205 in Greenwich at 16:10 on Wednesday 23 December 1981. A 56-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a snow-covered one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Slight
Date: 23 Dec 1981; Wednesday, 16:10
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LNQCC68
Council area: Greenwich
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 205
Road type: One way street or slip road
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 56, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 198101LNQCC68 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 1981.