A211 crash in Bexley on 24 January 2014 at 20:20 involving a Suzuki DL 650 motorcycle
A Suzuki DL 650 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A211 in Bexley at 20:20 on Friday 24 January 2014. The 30-year-old male rider of the Suzuki DL 650 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2014
- Friday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki DL 650 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43039, longitude 0.08374, in the DA14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chislehurst, Bromley, BR7 6HL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bexley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401RY10013
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 211
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 2001.
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A211 in Bexley, 24 February 2001
At the same spotRef 200101RY00132
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A211 in Bexley, 11 April 1990
10 m awayRef 199001RY00244
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A211 in Bexley, 17 July 2001
10 m awayRef 200101RY00427
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A211 in Bexley, 18 April 1993
14 m awayRef 199301RY00233
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A211 in Bexley, 2 February 2011
20 m awayRef 201101RY10015
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A211 in Bexley, 11 January 2003
20 m awayRef 200301RY00014
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki DL 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki DL 650)
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 201401RY10013 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 2014.