Serious A3211 crash in the City of London on 16 September 2008 at 22:14 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A3211 in the City of London at 22:14 on Tuesday 16 September 2008. The 28-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Sep 2008
- Tuesday, 22:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51091, longitude -0.10355, in the EC4V postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Borough & Bankside, Southwark, SE1 9JW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the City of London
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801CP00221
- Council area
- City of London
- Police force
- City of London
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3211
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 16 July 1996.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3211 in the City of London, 16 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601CP00427
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B132 in the City of London, 20 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199301CP00214
Serious
Piaggio crash on the A3211 in the City of London, 5 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199801CP00234
Serious
Ford Galaxy crash on the A3211 in the City of London, 11 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200601CP00177
Slight
Car crash on the A3211 in the City of London, 20 April 1993
10 m awayRef 199301CP00300
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A3211 in the City of London, 15 December 2002
10 m awayRef 200201CP00390
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Road works
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (125cc and under), 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 200801CP00221 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the City of London road accident statistics for 2008.