A2 crash in Southwark on 6 September 1985 at 21:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A2 in Southwark at 21:45 on Friday 6 September 1985. The 25-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
- 6 Sep 1985
- Friday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49633, longitude -0.08847, in the SE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark.
Map of where the crash happened in Southwark
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501MD00473
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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 24 May 2012.
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Southwark, 24 May 2012
At the same spotRef 201201MM70380
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A2 in Southwark, 27 September 1994
At the same spotRef 199401MD00449
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A2 in Southwark, 4 December 2006
10 m awayRef 200601MM71139
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A2 in Southwark, 30 May 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010111210
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Southwark, 12 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200001MM01625
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2 in Southwark, 28 November 1986
10 m awayRef 198601MD00595
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 198501MD00473 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.