A211 crash in Bexley on 15 October 2015 at 16:50 involving a Piaggio Zip motorcycle
Two Piaggio Zip motorcycles and a car were involved in a crash on the A211 in Bexley at 16:50 on Thursday 15 October 2015. The male rider of vehicle 1 and the 17-year-old male rider of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Oct 2015
- Thursday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Piaggio Zip and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42141, longitude 0.11135, in the DA14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sidcup, Bexley, DA14 6BS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bexley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501RY10390
- 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
- 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
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 August 2013.
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A211 in Bexley, 2 August 2013
At the same spotRef 201301RY10246
Slight
Bus crash on the A211 in Bexley, 17 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801RY00747
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A211 in Bexley, 29 January 1998
At the same spotRef 199801RY00070
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A211 in Bexley, 14 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199901RY00775
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A211 in Bexley, 30 September 1993
10 m awayRef 199301RY00605
Slight
Car crash on the A211 in Bexley, 17 January 1987
10 m awayRef 198701RY00025
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Zip
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Zip
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South 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
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Zip)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Zip)
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 201501RY10390 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 2015.