Unclassified road crash in Bexley DA17 on 18 November 1983 at 07:50 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bexley at 07:50 on Friday 18 November 1983. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 1983
- Friday, 07:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49765, longitude 0.16184, in the DA17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010RY0874
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 2003.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 5 September 2003
10 m awayRef 200301RY00386
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 22 April 1996
20 m awayRef 199601RY00281
Slight
Mazda RX8 crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 7 June 2016
32 m awayRef 201601RY10200
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 18 December 2006
51 m awayRef 200601RY10613
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 6 December 2004
51 m awayRef 200401TD00437
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 29 March 1995
51 m awayRef 199501RY00202
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 1983010RY0874 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.