C road crash in Lewisham on 24 December 1981 at 08:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Lewisham at 08:05 on Thursday 24 December 1981. The 31-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and a 27-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 08:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LOIBO78
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198101LOIBO78 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.