Serious A4020 crash in Ealing on 27 December 1981 at 03:10 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A4020 in Ealing at 03:10 on Sunday 27 December 1981. The 32-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 27 Dec 1981; Sunday, 03:10
Vehicles: 2; Motorcycle and car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LRDCE72
Council area: Ealing
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 4020
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 40 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: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
31 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Turning right

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Serious
Male, aged 32, 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 198101LRDCE72 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ealing road accident statistics for 1981.