Serious C road crash in Bexley DA7 on 26 March 2018 at 15:39 involving a Lexmoto Assault 125 motorcycle
A Lexmoto Assault 125 motorcycle and a Ford Kuga were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 15:39 on Monday 26 March 2018. The 19-year-old male rider of the Lexmoto Assault 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Mar 2018
- Monday, 15:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexmoto Assault 125 and Ford Kuga
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47359, longitude 0.14518, in the DA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Heath, Bexley, DA7 5HP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010098460
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Bexley, 6 November 1991
At the same spotRef 199101RY00655
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on a C road in Bexley, 2 October 1991
At the same spotRef 199101RY00578
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 20 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198901RY00200
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Bexley, 11 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199501RY00293
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Bexley, 3 March 1994
At the same spotRef 199401RY00163
Slight
Audi A3 crash on a C road in Bexley, 11 January 2023
8 m awayRef 2023010420840
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto Assault 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Kuga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto Assault 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018010098460 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.