C road crash in Southwark SE16 on 13 April 2007 at 17:02 involving a Yamaha XJR 1300 motorcycle
A Yamaha XJR 1300 motorcycle and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on a C road in Southwark at 17:02 on Friday 13 April 2007. The 57-year-old male rider of the Yamaha XJR 1300 motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Apr 2007
- Friday, 17:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha XJR 1300 and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49275, longitude -0.06526, in the SE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Bermondsey, Southwark, SE16 2FS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southwark
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701MM70269
- Council area
- Southwark
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
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The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 February 1998.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha XJR 1300
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 57, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha XJR 1300)
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 200701MM70269 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 2007.