A2 crash in Southwark on 29 December 1981 at 19:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A2 in Southwark at 19:20 on Tuesday 29 December 1981. The 44-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1981
- Tuesday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LTTEC81
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- 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
- Dry
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, 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 198101LTTEC81 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southwark road accident statistics for 1981.