C road crash in Bexley DA7 on 16 December 2014 at 00:53 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Bexley at 00:53 on Tuesday 16 December 2014. The 52-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2014
- Tuesday, 00:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46827, longitude 0.14262, in the DA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Heath, Bexley, DA7 5HP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401RY10528
- Council area
- Bexley
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 1986.
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Bexley, 27 January 1986
10 m awayRef 198601RY00074
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on a C road in Bexley, 18 August 2021
32 m awayRef 2021010325123
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 21 February 1982
45 m awayRef 1982010RY0125
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 14 November 1987
50 m awayRef 198701RY00835
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 8 March 1987
50 m awayRef 198701RY00146
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Bexley, 30 July 1990
50 m awayRef 199001RY00550
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201401RY10528 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.