Serious A209 crash in Bexley on 12 June 1982 at 00:04 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A209 in Bexley at 00:04 on Saturday 12 June 1982. The 43-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 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jun 1982
- Saturday, 00:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46306, longitude 0.09067, in the DA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010RY0452
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 209
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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 1 February 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A209 in Bexley, 1 February 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010RY0102
Slight
Van crash on the A209 in Bexley, 14 September 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RY00715
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A209 in Bexley, 13 May 2003
At the same spotRef 200301RY00241
Slight
Saab 9-3 crash on the A209 in Bexley, 11 March 2020
4 m awayRef 2020010241382
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the A209 in Bexley, 19 November 2024
7 m awayRef 2024010544455
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A209 in Bexley, 5 December 2021
9 m awayRef 2021010348230
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 43, 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 1982010RY0452 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.