A215 crash in Southwark on 13 September 1999 at 17:00 involving a Renault Laguna
A Renault Laguna and a Kawasaki Z550 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A215 in Southwark at 17:00 on Monday 13 September 1999. The male rider of the Kawasaki Z550 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
- 13 Sep 1999
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Laguna and Kawasaki Z550
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47704, longitude -0.09401, in the SE5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199901MS00355
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- 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
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2022.
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A215 in Southwark, 20 September 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010400371
Slight
Renault Twingo crash on the A215 in Southwark, 22 April 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010372235
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the A215 in Southwark, 4 July 1986
10 m awayRef 198601MS00226
Slight
Bus crash on the A215 in Southwark, 22 August 1997
10 m awayRef 199701MS00349
Slight
Volvo crash on the A215 in Southwark, 21 April 2003
10 m awayRef 200301MM00571
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A215 in Southwark, 26 August 1997
10 m awayRef 199701MS00347
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki Z550
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 553 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki Z550)
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 199901MS00355 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 1999.