Serious A5202 crash in Camden on 25 December 1981 at 06:15 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A5202 in Camden at 06:15 on Friday 25 December 1981. The 21-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a snow-covered one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity: Serious
Date: 25 Dec 1981; Friday, 06:15
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LPGDC25
Council area: Camden
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 5202
Road type: One way street or slip road
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Serious
Male, aged 21, 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 198101LPGDC25 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Camden road accident statistics for 1981.