A207 crash in Bexley on 16 February 2018 at 13:47 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Honda WW125EX2 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A207 in Bexley at 13:47 on Friday 16 February 2018. The 32-year-old male rider of the Honda WW125EX2 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
- 16 Feb 2018
- Friday, 13:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Honda WW125EX2
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4628, longitude 0.10537, in the DA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falconwood & Welling, Bexley, DA16 3QH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bexley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010090673
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 207
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A207 in Bexley, 28 November 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010RY0907
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A207 in Bexley, 14 March 1999
At the same spotRef 199901RY00163
Serious
Car crash on the A207 in Bexley, 3 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010RY0996
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A207 in Bexley, 4 December 2009
At the same spotRef 200901RY10527
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A207 in Bexley, 22 April 2014
At the same spotRef 201401RY10108
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the A207 in Bexley, 27 November 2023
7 m awayRef 2023010480528
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda WW125EX2
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda WW125EX2)
- 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 2018010090673 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 2018.