A217 crash in Merton on 12 December 2018 at 07:55 involving a Piaggio MP3 motorcycle
A car and a Piaggio MP3 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A217 in Merton at 07:55 on Wednesday 12 December 2018. The 52-year-old male rider of the Piaggio MP3 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2018
- Wednesday, 07:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Piaggio MP3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41153, longitude -0.16159, in the CR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lavender Fields, Merton, CR4 3JS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010151527
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2017.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A217 in Merton, 4 July 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010046373
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A217 in Merton, 29 May 2012
At the same spotRef 201201VW40198
Slight
Volvo crash on the A217 in Merton, 19 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200601VW40159
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A217 in Merton, 27 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199901VW00766
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A217 in Merton, 26 September 2007
At the same spotRef 200701VW40358
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on a C road in Merton, 9 November 2005
At the same spotRef 200501VW40414
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 61 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Piaggio MP3
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 244 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 52, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio MP3)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2018010151527 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 2018.