A5 crash in Brent on 31 December 1981 at 19:50 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A5 in Brent at 19:50 on Thursday 31 December 1981. The 65-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 31 Dec 1981; Thursday, 19:50
Vehicles: 2; Motorcycle and car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LVTKE83
Council area: Brent
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 5
Road type: Single 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: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Slight
Male, aged 65, 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 198101LVTKE83 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brent road accident statistics for 1981.