C road crash in Bexley DA15 on 21 June 1985 at 17:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 17:45 on Friday 21 June 1985. The 36-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jun 1985
- Friday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44565, longitude 0.10383, in the DA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501RY00450
- 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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 5 June 1985.
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Bexley, 5 June 1985
At the same spotRef 198501RY00400
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 25 March 1985
At the same spotRef 198501RY00212
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Bexley, 11 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198501RY00594
Slight
Volvo crash on a C road in Bexley, 21 December 2004
10 m awayRef 200401RY10513
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on a C road in Bexley, 3 October 2000
10 m awayRef 200001RY00558
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Bexley, 19 March 2002
10 m awayRef 200201RY00162
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 36, 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 198501RY00450 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.