A12 crash in Havering on 17 February 1985 at 17:00 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter and a car were involved in a crash on the A12 in Havering at 17:00 on Sunday 17 February 1985. The 24-year-old male rider of the motor scooter and a 19-year-old female passenger on the motor scooter were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Feb 1985
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motor scooter and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59264, longitude 0.21342, in the RM2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501KD00126
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 12
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 127
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 27 August 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A12 in Havering, 27 August 1984
At the same spotRef 198401KD00743
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A12 in Havering, 30 April 1993
At the same spotRef 199301KD00342
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A12 in Havering, 10 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200201KD00625
Slight
Honda CG125B crash on the A12 in Havering, 21 May 1993
At the same spotRef 199301KD00421
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A12 in Havering, 29 July 1990
At the same spotRef 199001KD00759
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on the A12 in Havering, 23 February 1992
At the same spotRef 199201KD00155
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
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 198501KD00126 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 1985.