C road crash in Bexley DA7 on 31 December 1983 at 19:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 19:35 on Saturday 31 December 1983. The 33-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1983
- Saturday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46489, longitude 0.15828, in the DA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010RY1010
- 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
- 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 24 October 1998.
Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on a C road in Bexley, 24 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199801RY00635
Slight
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10 m awayRef 199501RY00302
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Bexley, 9 October 2025
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 7 September 1982
22 m awayRef 1982010RY0724
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Bexley, 5 February 1997
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 18 January 1985
28 m awayRef 198501RY00036
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 33, 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 1983010RY1010 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.