A20 crash in Lewisham on 31 December 1981 at 12:50 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A20 in Lewisham at 12:50 on Thursday 31 December 1981. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.

Severity: Slight
Date: 31 Dec 1981; Thursday, 12:50
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LVMKC77
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: Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 198101LVMKC77 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.