A222 crash in Bexley on 4 May 2013 at 21:06 involving an Aprilia SX 50 motorcycle
A car and an Aprilia SX 50 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A222 in Bexley at 21:06 on Saturday 4 May 2013. The 16-year-old male rider of the Aprilia SX 50 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 May 2013
- Saturday, 21:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Aprilia SX 50
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43756, longitude 0.11529, in the DA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blendon & Penhill, Bexley, DA14 4NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bexley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301RY10117
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 222
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Dry
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%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 2000.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A222 in Bexley, 23 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200001RY00161
Slight
Car crash on the A222 in Bexley, 22 September 2009
10 m awayRef 200901RY10356
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A222 in Bexley, 18 May 1986
10 m awayRef 198601RY00393
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A222 in Bexley, 20 May 1999
10 m awayRef 199901RY00314
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A222 in Bexley, 28 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198501RY00931
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A222 in Bexley, 21 January 1994
14 m awayRef 199401RY00052
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Aprilia SX 50
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Aprilia SX 50)
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 201301RY10117 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 2013.