A1011 crash in Newham on 19 January 1997 at 14:37 involving a BMW K 75 RT motorcycle
A van and a BMW K 75 RT motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A1011 in Newham at 14:37 on Sunday 19 January 1997. The 35-year-old male rider of the BMW K 75 RT 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
- 19 Jan 1997
- Sunday, 14:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and BMW K 75 RT
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50692, longitude 0.01515, in the E16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701KO00035
- Council area
- Newham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1011
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 March 1986.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Newham, 22 March 1986
10 m awayRef 198601KE00128
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A1011 in Newham, 27 March 2017
14 m awayRef 2017010028761
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A1011 in Newham, 17 August 1986
14 m awayRef 198601KE00381
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A1011 in Newham, 10 June 2023
15 m awayRef 2023010448273
Slight
Lorry crash on the A1011 in Newham, 25 November 1983
22 m awayRef 1983010KE0490
Serious
Honda GLR 125 crash on the A1011 in Newham, 6 June 2023
40 m awayRef 2023010447388
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: BMW K 75 RT
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 740 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (BMW K 75 RT)
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 199701KO00035 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Newham road accident statistics for 1997.