A5 crash in Barnet on 29 January 1983 at 10:15 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jan 1983
- Saturday, 10:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5978, longitude -0.26427, in the HA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010QD0059
- Council area
- Barnet
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 2 November 2019.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A5 in Barnet, 2 November 2019
1 m awayRef 2019010215707
Fatal
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A5 in Barnet, 8 July 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010585565
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the A5 in Barnet, 23 January 1996
10 m awayRef 199601SV00046
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A5 in Barnet, 28 August 1993
10 m awayRef 199301SV00507
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A5 in Barnet, 19 December 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010153068
Fatal
Ford Sierra crash on the A5 in Barnet, 28 December 1992
10 m awayRef 199201QD00711
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, 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 1983010QD0059 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 1983.