C road crash in Merton SW19 on 25 April 2019 at 16:34 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Honda CBR125R motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Merton at 16:34 on Thursday 25 April 2019. The 22-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR125R motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 2019
- Thursday, 16:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Honda CBR125R
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41994, longitude -0.20628, in the SW19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wimbledon Town & Dundonald, Merton, SW19 3SF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Merton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010177022
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 285
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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 May 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B285 in Merton, 20 May 1992
2 m awayRef 199201ZM00364
Slight
Piaggio crash on a C road in Merton, 20 July 2002
2 m awayRef 200201VW00367
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B285 in Merton, 8 October 2008
2 m awayRef 200801VW40359
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Merton, 5 July 1986
11 m awayRef 198601VW00397
Slight
HGV crash on the B285 in Merton, 7 March 2001
11 m awayRef 200101VW00121
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B285 in Merton, 19 February 2016
12 m awayRef 201601VW40073
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR125R
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR125R)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019010177022 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 2019.