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Serious C road crash in Bexley DA7 on 25 March 1982 at 16:30 involving a motor scooter

A motor scooter and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 16:30 on Thursday 25 March 1982. The 17-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
25 Mar 1982
Thursday, 16:30
Vehicles
2
Motor scooter and car
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47798, longitude 0.13585, in the DA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982010RY0230
Council area
Bexley
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
C
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
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
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 18 September 2017.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Motor scooter

    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
    Hit object in carriageway
    Bollard or refuge
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    70 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 17, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)

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 1982010RY0230 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bexley road accident statistics for 1982.