A207 crash in Bexley on 2 April 1997 at 16:37 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on the A207 in Bexley at 16:37 on Wednesday 2 April 1997. The 26-year-old female rider of the Yamaha motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Apr 1997
- Wednesday, 16:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45774, longitude 0.1362, in the DA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701RY00204
- 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
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 1 August 1995.
Slight
Bus crash on the A207 in Bexley, 1 August 1995
At the same spotRef 199501RY00488
Slight
Gilera Runner crash on the A207 in Bexley, 10 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201RY00555
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A207 in Bexley, 30 May 1999
At the same spotRef 199901RY00454
Slight
Car crash on the A207 in Bexley, 17 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200201RY00025
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 10 November 2022
7 m awayRef 2022010409600
Slight
Triumph Trident crash on the A207 in Bexley, 16 February 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010360732
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 98 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 26, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
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 199701RY00204 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 1997.