A20 crash in Lewisham on 31 December 1981 at 12:20 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A20 in Lewisham at 12:20 on Thursday 31 December 1981. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 31 Dec 1981; Thursday, 12:20
Vehicles: 2; Motorcycle and car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LVMEC71
Council area: Lewisham
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 20
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (2)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Slight
Male, aged 18, 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 198101LVMEC71 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.