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Serious A20 crash in Lewisham on 5 July 1984 at 15:20 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A20 in Lewisham at 15:20 on Thursday 5 July 1984. A 40-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
5 Jul 1984
Thursday, 15:20
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46402, longitude -0.01107, in the SE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198401PL00323
Council area
Lewisham
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
20
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Auto traffic signal
Second road class
A
Second road number
21

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Pedestrian phase at traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Road surface
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 February 1983.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Front

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Female, aged 40, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

    Pedestrian location
    On refuge, central island or central reservation

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 198401PL00323 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lewisham road accident statistics for 1984.