C road crash in Bexley DA8 on 14 October 2001 at 22:55 involving a Yamaha XVS 1100 motorcycle
A Yamaha XVS 1100 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 22:55 on Sunday 14 October 2001. The 46-year-old male rider of the Yamaha XVS 1100 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 2001
- Sunday, 22:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha XVS 1100 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4724, longitude 0.15779, in the DA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexleyheath, Bexley, DA7 5EF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101RY00660
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha XVS 1100
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 46, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XVS 1100)
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 200101RY00660 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 2001.