Serious A205 crash in Lewisham on 25 December 1981 at 21:00 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and two cars were involved in a crash on the A205 in Lewisham at 21:00 on Friday 25 December 1981. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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: Serious
Date: 25 Dec 1981; Friday, 21:00
Vehicles: 3; Motorcycle and 2 others
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LPVAC78
Council area: Lewisham
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 205
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 (3)

Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Parked
Driver sex
Male
Vehicle 3: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning left
Driver sex
Male

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Serious
Male, aged 19, 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 198101LPVAC78 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.