Unclassified road crash in Merton CR4 on 26 December 2014 at 21:33 involving a Piaggio Fly motorcycle
A Piaggio Fly motorcycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Merton at 21:33 on Friday 26 December 2014. The 27-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Fly 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
- 26 Dec 2014
- Friday, 21:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Piaggio Fly and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40889, longitude -0.1627, in the CR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Figge's Marsh, Merton, CR4 2PA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401VW49019
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 217
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 6 February 2006.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A217 in Merton, 6 February 2006
At the same spotRef 200601VW40028
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the A217 in Merton, 29 June 1999
At the same spotRef 199901VW00403
Slight
Car crash on the A217 in Merton, 25 October 1986
At the same spotRef 198601VW00678
Slight
Volvo crash on the A217 in Merton, 12 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200201VW00122
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A217 in Merton, 30 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200101VW00649
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A217 in Merton, 2 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199801VW00672
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Fly
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Fly)
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 201401VW49019 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 2014.