A2198 crash in Southwark on 22 August 1994 at 18:45 involving a BMW motorcycle
A BMW motorcycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A2198 in Southwark at 18:45 on Monday 22 August 1994. The 37-year-old male rider of the BMW motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 1994
- Monday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49954, longitude -0.08675, in the SE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199401MD00399
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2198
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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 6 March 2014.
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A2198 in Southwark, 6 March 2014
At the same spotRef 201401MM70210
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A2198 in Southwark, 22 January 1996
At the same spotRef 199601MD00047
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A2198 in Southwark, 26 October 2024
1 m awayRef 2024010540055
Slight
Chevrolet Cruze crash on the A2198 in Southwark, 12 August 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010591685
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A2198 in Southwark, 7 January 1994
10 m awayRef 199401MD00011
Slight
Car crash on the B202 in Southwark, 2 May 1986
10 m awayRef 198601MD00201
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 980 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (BMW)
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 199401MD00399 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 1994.