Serious A3211 crash in the City of London on 20 June 2017 at 17:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A3211 in the City of London at 17:45 on Tuesday 20 June 2017. A 36-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 37-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Jun 2017
- Tuesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5097, longitude -0.0863, in the EC3R postcode district and within the built-up area of City and County of the City of London. It is one of the crashes that make up the Candlewick, City of London, EC4R 9AF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the City of London
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017480195824
- Council area
- City of London
- Police force
- City of London
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3211
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3211
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- 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 December 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B132 in the City of London, 24 December 1984
At the same spotRef 198448P668284
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in the City of London, 19 May 2016
At the same spotRef 2016480076344
Slight
Honda WW125EX2 crash on the A3211 in the City of London, 11 June 2018
5 m awayRef 2018480308981
Slight
Honda NSC110E crash on the A3 in the City of London, 20 September 2019
7 m awayRef 2019480923967
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3 in the City of London, 23 October 2019
8 m awayRef 2019480924160
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A3 in the City of London, 3 April 2020
9 m awayRef 2020480954956
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 36, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
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 2017480195824 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the City of London road accident statistics for 2017.