A40 crash in the City of London on 19 November 1985 at 08:34 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A40 in the City of London at 08:34 on Tuesday 19 November 1985. A 17-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 1985
- Tuesday, 08:34
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51394, longitude -0.09307, in the EC2V postcode district and within the built-up area of City and County of the City of London.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198548P467685
- Council area
- City of London
- Police force
- City of London
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198548P467685 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the City of London road accident statistics for 1985.