Unclassified road crash in Lewisham on 24 December 1981 at 06:30 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Lewisham at 06:30 on Thursday 24 December 1981. The 24-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 24 Dec 1981; Thursday, 06:30
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LOGGU71
Council area: Lewisham
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
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 (1)

Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Turning left
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
23 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Slight
Male, aged 24, 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 198101LOGGU71 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lewisham road accident statistics for 1981.