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Serious A2 crash in Bexley on 11 October 1983 at 20:00 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A2 in Bexley at 20:00 on Tuesday 11 October 1983. The 44-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
11 Oct 1983
Tuesday, 20:00
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44335, longitude 0.16561, in the DA5 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983010RY0784
Council area
Bexley
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
2
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
60 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    44 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 44, 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 1983010RY0784 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 1983.