B200 crash in Southwark on 23 May 1995 at 01:35 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B200 in Southwark at 01:35 on Tuesday 23 May 1995. The 32-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 1995
- Tuesday, 01:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50206, longitude -0.08089, 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
- 199501MD00255
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 200
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 2000.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B200 in Southwark, 5 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200001MM01575
Slight
Peugeot crash on the B200 in Southwark, 27 May 1999
At the same spotRef 199901MD00266
Slight
Toyota crash on the B200 in Southwark, 29 October 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010142094
Slight
Porsche 911 crash on the B200 in Southwark, 23 January 2003
22 m awayRef 200301MM00100
Slight
Honda crash on the B200 in Southwark, 18 June 2002
30 m awayRef 200201MM00820
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the B200 in Southwark, 30 July 2025
35 m awayRef 2025010589476
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Honda)
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 199501MD00255 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 1995.