A238 crash in Merton on 6 July 2015 at 18:17 involving a Honda NT650V Deauville motorcycle
A Honda NT650V Deauville motorcycle and a Ford S-Max were involved in a crash on the A238 in Merton at 18:17 on Monday 6 July 2015. The 55-year-old male rider of the Honda NT650V Deauville motorcycle was 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
- 6 Jul 2015
- Monday, 18:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda NT650V Deauville and Ford S-Max
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41259, longitude -0.20658, in the SW19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wimbledon Town & Dundonald, Merton, SW19 3SF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501VW40313
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 238
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 2011.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A238 in Merton, 31 January 2011
At the same spotRef 201101VW40040
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A238 in Merton, 23 May 1997
10 m awayRef 199701VW00287
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A238 in Merton, 13 June 2008
10 m awayRef 200801VW40185
Slight
Car crash on the A238 in Merton, 19 December 1984
10 m awayRef 198401VW00879
Slight
Hyundai i30 crash on the A238 in Merton, 23 February 2020
13 m awayRef 2020010238156
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A238 in Merton, 21 December 1995
14 m awayRef 199501ZM00751
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda NT650V Deauville
Motorcycle over 500cc
- 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
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 647 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Ford S-Max
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 55, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda NT650V Deauville)
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 201501VW40313 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 2015.