A41 crash in Hertsmere on 31 October 1983 at 18:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A41 in Hertsmere at 18:05 on Monday 31 October 1983. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 1983
- Monday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.647, longitude -0.33336, in the WD23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Hertsmere
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010SA0751
- Council area
- Hertsmere
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 41
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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 14 May 1997.
Slight
Car crash on the A41 in Hertsmere, 14 May 1997
At the same spotRef 199701SA00411
Serious
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A41 in Hertsmere, 25 August 2002
At the same spotRef 20024100J2655
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A41 in Hertsmere, 25 March 2002
At the same spotRef 20024100J2241
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A41 in Hertsmere, 16 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199401SA01024
Slight
Dacia Sandero crash on the A41 in Hertsmere, 22 August 2025
7 m awayRef 2025411657281
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A41 in Hertsmere, 26 October 2024
8 m awayRef 2024411518673
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, 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 1983010SA0751 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hertsmere road accident statistics for 1983.