A209 crash in Bexley on 24 January 2014 at 10:18 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a bus or coach were involved in a crash on the A209 in Bexley at 10:18 on Friday 24 January 2014. The 50-year-old male driver of the bus or coach and a 46-year-old female passenger in the bus or coach were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 2014
- Friday, 10:18
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and bus or coach
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47306, longitude 0.11174, in the DA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Heath, Bexley, DA16 1BJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401RY10020
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 209
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 January 1988.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 28 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198801RY00093
Slight
Volvo crash on the A209 in Bexley, 10 March 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010024249
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Bexley, 9 October 2015
At the same spotRef 201501RY10387
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A209 in Bexley, 25 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200101RY00067
Slight
Hyundai X2 crash on the A209 in Bexley, 24 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200201RY00376
Slight
BMW crash on the A209 in Bexley, 24 September 1997
At the same spotRef 199701RY00564
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 2: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Bus or coach)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
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 201401RY10020 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.