C road crash in Merton SW16 on 19 December 2012 at 18:20 involving a Honda ANF126T motorcycle
A Honda ANF126T motorcycle crashed on a C road in Merton at 18:20 on Wednesday 19 December 2012. The 26-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2012
- Wednesday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda ANF126T
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4086, longitude -0.13338, in the SW16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201VW40479
- Council area
- Merton
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
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The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 2000.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda ANF126T
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda ANF126T)
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 201201VW40479 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.