Serious A206 crash in Bexley on 21 November 2016 at 07:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Lexmoto Arrow motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A206 in Bexley at 07:00 on Monday 21 November 2016. The 29-year-old male rider of the Lexmoto Arrow motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Nov 2016
- Monday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Lexmoto Arrow
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48445, longitude 0.15289, in the DA17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belvedere, Bexley, DA17 5QL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010002544
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 206
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A206 in Bexley, 24 February 1997
At the same spotRef 199701RY00160
Slight
Car crash on the A206 in Bexley, 18 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RY00810
Slight
Car crash on the A206 in Bexley, 11 February 1987
At the same spotRef 198701RY00084
Serious
Vauxhall Sintra crash on the A206 in Bexley, 20 July 2007
At the same spotRef 200701RY64985
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A206 in Bexley, 30 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701RY00801
Slight
MG Metro crash on the A206 in Bexley, 18 November 1991
At the same spotRef 199101RY00682
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Lexmoto Arrow
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Lexmoto Arrow)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016010002544 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 2016.