A201 crash in Southwark on 27 September 2008 at 08:00 involving a Honda NES125 motorcycle
A Honda NES125 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A201 in Southwark at 08:00 on Saturday 27 September 2008. The 29-year-old male rider of the Honda NES125 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
- 27 Sep 2008
- Saturday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda NES125 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49403, longitude -0.09416, in the SE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chaucer, Southwark, SE1 6PH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southwark
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801MM70980
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 201
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 240
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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 October 2013.
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Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A201 in Southwark, 29 October 2013
At the same spotRef 201301MM70843
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Honda NC700SA crash on the A201 in Southwark, 4 April 2016
At the same spotRef 201601MM70255
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Dennis crash on the A201 in Southwark, 30 November 2007
At the same spotRef 200701MM79143
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Taxi crash on the A201 in Southwark, 14 January 1987
At the same spotRef 198701MS00009
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Vehicle crash on the A201 in Southwark, 31 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198401MS00284
Slight
Taxi crash on the A201 in Southwark, 15 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200201MM00754
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda NES125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda NES125)
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 200801MM70980 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 2008.