Serious A315 crash in Hounslow on 30 December 1986 at 05:33 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A315 in Hounslow at 05:33 on Tuesday 30 December 1986. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Dec 1986
- Tuesday, 05:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601TD01151
- Council area
- Hounslow
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 315
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 4127
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
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 198601TD01151 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 1986.