Serious C road crash in Hounslow TW14 on 21 February 1985 at 15:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Hounslow at 15:45 on Thursday 21 February 1985. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Feb 1985
- Thursday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46596, longitude -0.42246, in the TW14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hounslow.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501TD00107
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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 10 August 1983.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hounslow, 10 August 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010IW0571
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hounslow, 3 January 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010IW0008
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Hounslow, 16 September 1985
At the same spotRef 198501TD00615
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Hounslow, 1 July 1987
At the same spotRef 198701TD00436
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on a C road in Hounslow, 25 June 2024
9 m awayRef 2024010518302
Serious
Rover 800 Series crash on a C road in Hounslow, 6 June 1991
10 m awayRef 199101TD00390
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 198501TD00107 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hounslow road accident statistics for 1985.