Serious A207 crash in Bexley on 10 September 1986 at 10:09 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A207 in Bexley at 10:09 on Wednesday 10 September 1986. The 43-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and a 35-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Sep 1986
- Wednesday, 10:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45528, longitude 0.15293, in the DA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601RY00686
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 207
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 220
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 23 October 1984.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A207 in Bexley, 23 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RY00822
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A207 in Bexley, 20 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198601RY00714
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A220 in Bexley, 3 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198901RY00159
Serious
Car crash on the A207 in Bexley, 19 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198701RY00099
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A207 in Bexley, 3 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198601RY00673
Slight
Car crash on the A207 in Bexley, 14 December 1986
At the same spotRef 198601RY00984
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 43, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 35, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 198601RY00686 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 1986.