Serious A113 crash in Redbridge on 31 December 1981 at 19:55 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A113 in Redbridge at 19:55 on Thursday 31 December 1981. A male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 20-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

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

Severity: Serious
Date: 31 Dec 1981; Thursday, 19:55
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 2; 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LVTLD48
Council area: Redbridge
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 113
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (2)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Casualty 2: Rider
Slight
Male, aged 20, 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 198101LVTLD48 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redbridge road accident statistics for 1981.