A3 crash in Southwark on 27 February 1985 at 02:45 involving a motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Feb 1985
- Wednesday, 02:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5042, longitude -0.09103, in the SE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501MD00100
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 March 1988.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3 in Southwark, 23 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198801MD00156
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 19 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200001MM09101
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3 in Southwark, 9 March 2020
6 m awayRef 2020010240965
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A3 in Southwark, 8 October 2021
8 m awayRef 2021010336673
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Tesla Model Y crash on the A3 in Southwark, 6 November 2025
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Slight
Bicycle crash on the A3 in Southwark, 24 November 2017
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198501MD00100 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southwark road accident statistics for 1985.