Serious A221 crash in Bexley on 19 June 2008 at 10:45 involving a Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle, a Vauxhall Corsa and a car were involved in a crash on the A221 in Bexley at 10:45 on Thursday 19 June 2008. The 43-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle and the 47-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Corsa were 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
- 19 Jun 2008
- Thursday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Suzuki GSXR 1000 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44976, longitude 0.12233, in the DA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blendon & Penhill, Bexley, DA5 1JW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bexley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801RY10311
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 221
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 29 April 2008.
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A221 in Bexley, 29 April 2008
At the same spotRef 200801RY10136
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A221 in Bexley, 4 July 2010
14 m awayRef 201001RY10298
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A221 in Bexley, 5 August 2018
22 m awayRef 2018010125507
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A221 in Bexley, 29 April 2012
28 m awayRef 201201RY10143
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the A221 in Bexley, 11 March 2023
38 m awayRef 2023010431684
Slight
Car crash on the A221 in Bexley, 22 February 1985
50 m awayRef 198501RY00129
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 43, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR 1000)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 200801RY10311 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 2008.