A207 crash in Bexley on 4 December 1986 at 17:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A207 in Bexley at 17:00 on Thursday 4 December 1986. The 27-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
- 4 Dec 1986
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45187, longitude 0.1722, in the DA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601RY00940
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 207
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 223
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 April 1994.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A223 in Bexley, 23 April 1994
10 m awayRef 199401RY00264
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A223 in Bexley, 17 October 2022
11 m awayRef 2022010404988
Slight
Bus crash on the A207 in Bexley, 26 September 1989
14 m awayRef 198901RY00667
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A223 in Bexley, 16 April 2011
14 m awayRef 201101RY10121
Slight
Gilera Runner 125 crash on the A223 in Bexley, 29 February 2012
14 m awayRef 201201RY10062
Serious
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A223 in Bexley, 1 July 2002
14 m awayRef 200201RY00407
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, 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 198601RY00940 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.