Serious A104 crash in Hackney on 12 April 1983 at 23:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A104 in Hackney at 23:40 on Tuesday 12 April 1983. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Apr 1983
- Tuesday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55142, longitude -0.05861, in the E5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010GH0198
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 104
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 1994.
Slight
Car crash on the A104 in Hackney, 26 April 1994
At the same spotRef 199401GD00212
Serious
Car crash on the A104 in Hackney, 28 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198601GH00490
Fatal
Car crash on the A104 in Hackney, 24 February 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010GH0097
Slight
Bus crash on the A104 in Hackney, 9 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198401GH00105
Slight
Car crash on the A104 in Hackney, 27 December 1985
14 m awayRef 198501GH00709
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A104 in Hackney, 10 March 2023
17 m awayRef 2023010431534
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 1983010GH0198 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hackney road accident statistics for 1983.