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Serious unclassified road crash in Havering RM7 on 11 August 1985 at 00:35 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Havering at 00:35 on Sunday 11 August 1985. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle, a 16-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle and the 24-year-old female driver of the car were seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity
Serious
Date
11 Aug 1985
Sunday, 00:35
Vehicles
2
Motorcycle and car
Casualties
3
3 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.59032, longitude 0.15931, in the RM7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering.

Map of where the crash happened in Havering

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198501KD00667
Council area
Havering
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Crossroads
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
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 12 May 1986.

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
    18 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North West
    Travelling to
    South East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    24 years

Casualties (3)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 16, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

  • Casualty 3: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)

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 198501KD00667 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.