A103 crash in Haringey on 26 January 1983 at 17:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A103 in Haringey at 17:20 on Wednesday 26 January 1983. The 24-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jan 1983
- Wednesday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58261, longitude -0.11849, in the N8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haringey.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010YR0036
- Council area
- Haringey
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 103
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 2009.
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Volkswagen crash on the A103 in Haringey, 21 January 2009
At the same spotRef 200901YR90013
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Mercedes CL Class crash on the A103 in Haringey, 1 July 2008
At the same spotRef 200801YR90419
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A103 in Haringey, 26 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199701YR00206
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Saab 900 crash on the A103 in Haringey, 25 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200201YR00551
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Car crash on the A103 in Haringey, 23 April 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010YR0165
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A103 in Haringey, 26 February 2015
At the same spotRef 201501YR90241
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 1983010YR0036 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Haringey road accident statistics for 1983.