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Serious A20 crash in Bexley on 21 January 1998 at 19:30 involving a Suzuki motorcycle

A Suzuki motorcycle crashed on the A20 in Bexley at 19:30 on Wednesday 21 January 1998. The 35-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Jan 1998
Wednesday, 19:30
Vehicles
1
Suzuki
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41248, longitude 0.11281, in the BR5 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Bexley

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199801PY00082
Council area
Bexley
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
20
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
224

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
Footbridge or subway

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 serious injury crash on 20 December 1996.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Suzuki

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Did not impact
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    35 years
    Engine capacity
    599 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    1 year

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 35, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)

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 199801PY00082 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 1998.