Serious A315 crash in Hammersmith and Fulham on 29 March 1985 at 22:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A315 in Hammersmith and Fulham at 22:10 on Friday 29 March 1985. The male rider was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Mar 1985
- Friday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4935, longitude -0.21652, in the W6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hammersmith and Fulham.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501FD00082
- Council area
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 315
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 28 October 1992.
Slight
Austin Taxi crash on the A315 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 28 October 1992
At the same spotRef 199201FH00563
Serious
Car crash on the A315 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 29 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198501FD00212
Serious
Car crash on the A315 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 9 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198501FD00089
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A315 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 2 December 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010613592
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A315 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 23 May 1991
10 m awayRef 199101FD00269
Serious
Van crash on the A315 in Hammersmith and Fulham, 5 October 1987
10 m awayRef 198701FD00289
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, 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 198501FD00082 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hammersmith and Fulham road accident statistics for 1985.