Serious A200 crash in Southwark on 7 February 2017 at 06:52 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A200 in Southwark at 06:52 on Tuesday 7 February 2017. The 54-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Feb 2017
- Tuesday, 06:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49794, longitude -0.05452, in the SE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Bermondsey, Southwark, SE16 2FS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southwark
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010016575
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 200
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 22 May 2007.
Slight
Car crash on the A200 in Southwark, 22 May 2007
At the same spotRef 200701MD62920
Slight
Taxi crash on the A200 in Southwark, 3 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198501MD00330
Slight
Car crash on the A200 in Southwark, 8 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010MD0659
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A200 in Southwark, 7 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199801MD00066
Slight
Honda CBF125M crash on the A200 in Southwark, 24 September 2014
10 m awayRef 201401MM70924
Slight
Car crash on the A200 in Southwark, 3 October 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010MD0497
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2017010016575 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southwark road accident statistics for 2017.