Serious C road crash in Epping Forest on 31 December 1981 at 17:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Epping Forest at 17:55 on Thursday 31 December 1981. The 32-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 31 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LVRLR61
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, 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 198101LVRLR61 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 1981.