A201 crash in Southwark on 3 October 1996 at 20:47 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A201 in Southwark at 20:47 on Thursday 3 October 1996. The male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 1996
- Thursday, 20:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49413, longitude -0.0913, in the SE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark.
Map of where the crash happened in Southwark
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199601MD00457
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 201
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 August 1992.
Slight
Car crash on the A201 in Southwark, 12 August 1992
At the same spotRef 199201MD00372
Serious
Car crash on the A201 in Southwark, 16 November 1986
At the same spotRef 198601MD00569
Slight
Car crash on the A201 in Southwark, 8 April 1988
At the same spotRef 198801MS00131
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A201 in Southwark, 2 December 2022
3 m awayRef 2022010414034
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A201 in Southwark, 25 October 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010474008
Slight
Lexmoto Aura crash on the A201 in Southwark, 4 November 2021
6 m awayRef 2021010341688
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, 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 199601MD00457 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 1996.