B519 crash in Haringey on 17 October 1985 at 18:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B519 in Haringey at 18:00 on Thursday 17 October 1985. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Oct 1985
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57205, longitude -0.15615, in the N6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Haringey.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501YR00459
- Council area
- Haringey
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 519
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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 slight injury crash on 23 April 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B519 in Haringey, 23 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198501YR00164
Slight
Car crash on the B519 in Haringey, 29 August 1986
10 m awayRef 198601YR00372
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B519 in Haringey, 16 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198501YR00556
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B519 in Haringey, 19 January 2002
40 m awayRef 200201EK00056
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B519 in Haringey, 14 May 1987
41 m awayRef 198701YR00181
Serious
Honda CB600 Hornet crash on the B519 in Haringey, 22 May 2014
50 m awayRef 201401EK40428
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198501YR00459 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Haringey road accident statistics for 1985.