Unclassified road crash in Merton CR7 on 31 July 2012 at 20:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Merton at 20:30 on Tuesday 31 July 2012. The 20-year-old male rider was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2012
- Tuesday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39662, longitude -0.12625, in the CR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pollards Hill, Merton, CR4 1XJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201VW40278
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 1982.
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 14 July 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010VW0461
Serious
Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 27 May 1992
10 m awayRef 199201ZM00371
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 3 August 1991
14 m awayRef 199101VW00484
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 19 August 2011
22 m awayRef 201101VW40291
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 24 December 2003
28 m awayRef 200301VW00614
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 10 June 2007
58 m awayRef 200701VW40188
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 201201VW40278 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 2012.