Serious C road crash in Bexley DA7 on 26 July 2002 at 08:00 involving a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 08:00 on Friday 26 July 2002. The 42-year-old male rider of the Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jul 2002
- Friday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki SV 650 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47013, longitude 0.14415, in the DA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Heath, Bexley, DA7 5HP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201RY00466
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 2016.
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Suzuki crash on a C road in Bexley, 28 July 1997
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Kawasaki crash on a C road in Bexley, 14 February 1998
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki SV 650)
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 200201RY00466 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 2002.