Serious C road crash in Redbridge IG7 on 4 November 1986 at 23:41 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Redbridge at 23:41 on Tuesday 4 November 1986. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Nov 1986
- Tuesday, 23:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60828, longitude 0.11163, in the IG7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redbridge.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601JB00706
- Council area
- Redbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 6 April 1987.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Redbridge, 6 April 1987
At the same spotRef 198701JB00221
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Redbridge, 5 February 1986
36 m awayRef 198601JB00074
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on a C road in Redbridge, 9 October 1992
36 m awayRef 199201JD00356
Slight
Wrightbus Streetdeck crash on a C road in Redbridge, 18 October 2025
38 m awayRef 2025010604364
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Redbridge, 17 July 1986
42 m awayRef 198601JB00445
Fatal
Car crash on a C road in Redbridge, 2 August 1984
67 m awayRef 198401JB00465
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198601JB00706 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redbridge road accident statistics for 1986.