A3 crash in Wandsworth on 18 September 1998 at 19:20 involving a Peugeot 106
A motorcycle and a Peugeot 106 were involved in a crash on the A3 in Wandsworth at 19:20 on Friday 18 September 1998. The 37-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 1998
- Friday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Peugeot 106
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4569, longitude -0.19362, in the SW18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wandsworth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801WW00563
- Council area
- Wandsworth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 slight injury crash on 28 April 1991.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 106
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 199801WW00563 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wandsworth road accident statistics for 1998.