Serious C road crash in Bexley DA7 on 13 June 1985 at 08:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 08:30 on Thursday 13 June 1985. The 18-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Jun 1985
- Thursday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47341, longitude 0.14529, in the DA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501RY00428
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 February 1982.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 18 February 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010RY0117
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Bexley, 13 December 1985
At the same spotRef 198501RY00981
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 30 August 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RY00664
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 26 October 1985
At the same spotRef 198501RY00814
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Bexley, 18 March 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010RY0186
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Bexley, 29 September 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RY00766
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 18, 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 198501RY00428 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 1985.