A101 crash in Southwark on 18 September 2014 at 08:05 involving a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 2014
- Thursday, 08:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Piaggio Vespa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50045, longitude -0.05197, in the SE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rotherhithe, Southwark, SE16 6RT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southwark
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401MM70917
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 101
- 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
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2024.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A101 in Southwark, 1 February 2024
9 m awayRef 2024010492258
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 14 January 1989
10 m awayRef 198901MD00027
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A2201 in Southwark, 6 May 1994
10 m awayRef 199401MD00215
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on the B205 in Southwark, 10 November 2023
13 m awayRef 2023010477212
Serious
Fiat Croma crash on the A101 in Southwark, 4 January 1994
14 m awayRef 199401MD00005
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A101 in Southwark, 23 June 2009
14 m awayRef 200901MM70466
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Vespa
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Vespa)
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 201401MM70917 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 2014.