A217 crash in Merton on 23 May 2016 at 07:05 involving a Honda CB600F motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 2016
- Monday, 07:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CB600F
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41949, longitude -0.16185, in the SW17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tooting Broadway, Wandsworth, SW17 9XL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601VW40237
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 217
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 2017.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A217 in Merton, 9 May 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010036528
Slight
Car crash on the A217 in Merton, 25 April 2003
At the same spotRef 200301TE00058
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on the A217 in Merton, 18 April 2008
At the same spotRef 200801VW40128
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on the A217 in Merton, 27 December 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010080286
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the A217 in Merton, 26 July 2020
4 m awayRef 2020010258743
Serious
Hyundai Kona crash on the A217 in Merton, 2 March 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010561820
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CB600F
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 28, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda CB600F)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 201601VW40237 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 2016.