B215 crash in Southwark on 22 January 1998 at 12:05 involving a Honda C90 motorcycle
A Honda C90 motorcycle and a Suzuki Swift were involved in a crash on the B215 in Southwark at 12:05 on Thursday 22 January 1998. The 51-year-old male rider of the Honda C90 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
- 22 Jan 1998
- Thursday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda C90 and Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47706, longitude -0.06998, in the SE15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801MM00028
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 215
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 216
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 21 June 2000.
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B216 in Southwark, 21 June 2000
At the same spotRef 200001MM00735
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B215 in Southwark, 5 August 1989
At the same spotRef 198901MM00408
Slight
BMW X5 crash on the B216 in Southwark, 27 August 2009
At the same spotRef 200901MM70657
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B215 in Southwark, 1 April 1994
At the same spotRef 199401MM00148
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B215 in Southwark, 8 March 1999
At the same spotRef 199901MM00113
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B215 in Southwark, 16 November 2009
At the same spotRef 200901MM71066
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda C90
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 51, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda C90)
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 199801MM00028 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 1998.