Serious C road crash in Havering RM14 on 24 May 1983 at 13:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Havering at 13:40 on Tuesday 24 May 1983. The 23-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 May 1983
- Tuesday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5434, longitude 0.23064, in the RM14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010KD0487
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Car crash on a C road in Havering, 12 July 1985
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Car crash on a C road in Havering, 9 January 1987
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 23, 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 1983010KD0487 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 1983.