A215 crash in Southwark on 28 May 1982 at 16:06 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 1982
- Friday, 16:06
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48809, longitude -0.09559, in the SE17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010MS0216
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 215
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 10 January 1992.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A215 in Southwark, 10 January 1992
At the same spotRef 199201MS00009
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A215 in Southwark, 15 February 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010MS0052
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A215 in Southwark, 14 September 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010597574
Slight
Volkswagen Crafter crash on the A215 in Southwark, 13 May 2021
4 m awayRef 2021010307147
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A215 in Southwark, 18 August 2022
8 m awayRef 2022010394674
Serious
Lorry crash on the A215 in Southwark, 2 March 1987
10 m awayRef 198701MS00053
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 29, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 1982010MS0216 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southwark road accident statistics for 1982.