Serious A1200 crash in Hackney on 7 August 1985 at 10:00 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Aug 1985
- Wednesday, 10:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52958, longitude -0.08708, in the N1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hackney.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501GH00420
- Council area
- Hackney
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1200
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 13 March 2009.
Serious
Renault Laguna crash on the A1200 in Hackney, 13 March 2009
At the same spotRef 200901GD10100
Serious
Dennis crash on the A1200 in Hackney, 27 April 1998
At the same spotRef 199801GD00175
Slight
Van crash on the A1200 in Hackney, 16 December 1986
At the same spotRef 198601GH00642
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1200 in Hackney, 8 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198501GH00410
Slight
Car crash on the A1200 in Hackney, 16 March 2009
At the same spotRef 200901GD10112
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A1200 in Hackney, 20 September 2019
8 m awayRef 2019010206745
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 36, 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 198501GH00420 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hackney road accident statistics for 1985.